Pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer packaged goods company Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572 million to the state of Oklahoma after a judge found the company downplayed the dangers of its opioid painkillers and contributed to the opioid overdose epidemic in the state.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan has been appointed to the board of directors of Janesville, Wisconsin-based SHINE Medical Technologies.

SAN FRANCISCO (August 26, 2019)—Cricket Health, a comprehensive kidney care provider with a personalized, evidence-based approach to managing care, today announced new additions to the company’s senior leadership team. Former health plan leader Colleen Reitan was appointed to the company’s board of directors and veteran health care executive Adam Hameed will be joining Cricket Health as chief development officer.

A new type of blood test can detect mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) completely missed by CT scans, according to new research published in Lancet Neurology.

While there is some back-and-forth debate over the true savings results from Medicare Advantage, the plans could actually cost Medicare and the American taxpayer.

Gender incongruence, defined in the International Classification of Diseases as “a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual's experienced gender and the assigned sex,” is now recognized as a sexual health condition and not a mental illness.

A new report from Reuters asserts that Philips Healthcare knew of suspicious medical equipment sales to government officials in Brazil years before the scheme was uncovered in May.

A death in Illinois from pulmonary illness has been linked to the use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, according to the CDC. The Illinois patient is the first death reported amid an outbreak of lung illness that is somewhat mysterious but tied to vaping.