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HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania is expanding organ and tissue donation education in secondary schools with a free online training course that gives educators four hours of Act 48 continuing education …
Pennsylvania Expands Organ Donation Training for Teachers Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, long-term monitoring of more than 154,000 World Trade Center responders and survivors is showing higher cancer-screening rates and lower …
WTC Health Program Links Long-Term Care to Better Outcomes Read More
DREXEL HILL, PA — Delaware County Community College launched a fundraising campaign to equip its new Southeast Center with training technology and career tools, linking private donations to workforce programs …
DCCC Seeks Donor Support for Workforce Training Expansion Read More
HARRISBURG, PA — West Virginia University Health System must keep five Western Pennsylvania hospitals and related facilities operating for at least five years and accept restrictions on insurer contracting under …
Pennsylvania Sets Guardrails on WVU Health Expansion Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring Ascension Health Alliance to sell seven ambulatory surgery centers as a condition of its proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of …
FTC Forces Surgery Center Sales in $3.9 Billion Ascension Deal Read More
COATESVILLE, PA — Union Community Care is building Chester County’s first school-based community health center inside Coatesville Area Senior High School, creating a year-round access point for medical care as …
Coatesville School Health Center Moves Toward 2027 Opening Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration last week proposed a potential regulatory framework for medical devices powered by generative artificial intelligence, opening scrutiny of how manufacturers assess safety, …
FDA Weighs New Safety Rules for Generative AI Medical Devices Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CVS Health’s Caremark pharmacy benefit manager agreed to change how it prices and administers prescription-drug benefits under a proposed Federal Trade Commission settlement that the agency estimates …
FTC Deal Forces Caremark to Reshape Drug Pricing Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. and Genesis MedTech Group Limited agreed to pay a record $12 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that they structured a medical-device acquisition …
FTC Secures Record $12M Penalty Over Unreported Deal Read More WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission has urged a federal appeals court to preserve an antitrust lawsuit accusing Johnson & Johnson of unlawfully maintaining its monopoly over the blockbuster …
FTC Backs Antitrust Suit Challenging J&J’s Stelara Monopoly Read More