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  • September 23, 2026

    Organ Network Says Kidney Race Bias Claims Can't Proceed

    The United Network for Organ Sharing is seeking to exit a proposed class action claiming it prolonged wait times for Black patients seeking kidney transplants by encouraging hospitals to use a flawed race-based adjustment when measuring kidney function, saying the network's policy was "silent" as to how such scores were calculated.

  • September 23, 2026

    Colo. Judge Declines To Sanction Hospital In Gender Care Suit

    Children's Hospital Colorado properly complied with an injunction prohibiting it from refusing to provide medically necessary gender-affirming care to transgender youth patients, a state judge ruled, rejecting a request by a class of patients to hold the hospital in contempt.

  • September 23, 2026

    Patients Drop Fertility Fraud Suits Against Yale Medical School

    Five plaintiffs have dropped two related court actions against Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital and the estate of a Connecticut doctor accused of fraudulently using his own sperm to inseminate fertility patients, state court records show.

  • September 23, 2026

    Curium Resets FTC Clock On $8B Lantheus Take-Private Deal

    Private equity-backed radiopharmaceutical company Curium reset the clock for the Federal Trade Commission's 30-day review of its plan to acquire fellow radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings Inc. in an $8 billion take-private deal.

  • September 23, 2026

    Vein Tech Maker Escapes Suit Over DOJ Kickback Probe

    A New York federal judge has tossed, for now, a proposed investor class action alleging that vein disease device maker Inari Medical Inc.'s share price fell after it disclosed an investigation into its compliance with federal anti-kickback laws, finding the suit does not plausibly show Inari was paying healthcare providers unlawful kickbacks, among other things.

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