Several hospitals across the country are diverting ambulances from their emergency rooms and rescheduling operations following a ransomware attack.
Driving the news: Ardent Health Services, which operates 30 hospitals across six states, said in a statement Monday that a ransomware attack had led it to proactively take its networks offline on Thanksgiving.
Makers of "forever chemicals" won a legal victory Monday when an appeals court overruled an earlier decision that would have allowed millions of Ohio residents to join a class action lawsuit against the companies.
Driving the news: The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals instructed a lower court to dismiss the case filed against 3M, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Chemours, Corteva and other manufacturers of the synthetic compounds, referred to collectively as PFAS.
Amid widespread drug shortages, President Biden is outlining a plan to increase domestic production of essential pharmaceuticals — including by leveraging a defense law used to bolster countermeasures against COVID-19.
Why it matters: The number of drugs in shortage is higher than at any point in almost a decade, while U.S. drug manufacturers largely depend on overseas suppliers for active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Christmas has come earlyfor Democratic campaign staffers, courtesy of former President Trump'svow over the holiday weekend to "never give up" on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Why it matters: Democrats are eager to revive their health care playbook from 2018, when the party rode a "blue wave" to the House majority by aggressively campaigning on Republican attempts to gut Obamacare.
There's an emerging debate around a popular class of anti-obesity drugs: whether patients who go on themcan ever expect to stop taking them.
Why it matters: The drugs represent an important shift in treating obesity as a chronic disease, but that has costly implications. Much of the tension around the drugs' long-term use is being driven by the insurers paying for them and clinicians who prescribe them.
