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Judge rejects claims dog pepper-sprayed by mailman caused children’s asthma

The family of two children in San Diego claimed a USPS mail carrier repeatedly and maliciously pepper-sprayed their family dog, which resulted in their two young children developing asthma.

DOJ enjoined from receiving minors’ medical info

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal court in California enjoined the acting U.S. Attorney General from requesting, receiving, disclosing or otherwise obtaining information about a class of minors who sought or received gender-affirming care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The Department of Justice may not seek their health information such as diagnoses and assessments, materials that describe the care provided to them or relate to parent or guardian authorization for their care. This information would violate the patients’ constitutional privacy rights.

Long Island ambulette operators charged in $35 million Medicaid fraud scheme

Both defendants were filmed making illicit payments to undercover law enforcement agents, prosecutors say.

Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis

The Trump administration is pressuring Cuba’s socialist government to implement major economic reforms and change its way of governance in return for a lifting of sanctions.

Novartis stumbles in challenge to Missouri discounted drug mandate

The drug giant claimed the law violated the dormant commerce clause by discriminating against interstate commerce.

Hospitals in Europe are gearing up for the next heat wave armed with lessons from this one

Efforts to plug some of the holes exposed by the heat wave that shifted eastward to other parts of Europe after battering France, the United Kingdom and other countries are accelerating on a national level, too.

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