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Not everyone is pardoning Google's dust as Chicago's Merchandise Mart makes renovations for the arrival of the Internet giant's new mobile solutions unit next year. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is suing its landlord.
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Intuitive Surgical convinced a Washington state jury that it wasn't negligent in its training of a doctor who performed a robot-assisted surgery on a patient who later died.
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In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal healthcare law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
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The practice of temporarily "parking" the mentally ill in hospital emergency rooms without treatment violates state and federal law, Pierce County (Wash.) Superior Court Judge Kathryn Nelson ruled in a decision that could affect how mental health patients are treated across the state.
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Jury deliberations are set to begin in the first case to go to trial of at least 26 lawsuits against Intuitive Surgical alleging injuries tied to its da Vinci robotic system.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a patent dispute concerning Medtronic over medical devices it manufactures that give the heart electrical jolts when it fails to pump blood properly.
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Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away from patients.
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Georgia's Phoebe Putney Health System, which has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court and back in its quest to buy a rival hospital for $200 million, lost a key legal battle last week when a federal judge imposed what he called an “extraordinary and drastic” restraining order on the...
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Two doctors are set to ask a U.S. judge to block the Human Heartbeat Protection Act, an Arkansas law banning most abortions at the 12th week of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
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Phoebe Putney Health System, which has gone to the Supreme Court and back in its quest to buy a rival hospital, lost a key legal battle when a judge imposed a restraining order on the union.
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