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Life Sciences Law360 provides breaking legal news and analysis on the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Coverage includes high-stakes litigation and policy developments that affect life sciences companies, as well as licensing deals, mergers, and other corporate transactions.



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Latest News in Life Sciences

  • November 04, 2026

    CVS To Split In 2, Unraveling Decade-Old Megamerger

    CVS Health said Wednesday that it plans to split into two independent, publicly traded companies, separating its Aetna- and Caremark-led healthcare businesses from its 9,000 retail pharmacy locations, reversing its nearly decade-old combination of the businesses.

  • November 03, 2026

    Va., Mo. Voters Deliver Wins For Abortion Rights

    Supporters of abortion access won key victories Tuesday in Virginia and Missouri as voters across the country took up healthcare measures that will shape state laws on reproductive and gender-affirming care, according to partial, unofficial returns.

  • November 03, 2026

    Feds Dropping Charges Against Harvard Researcher

    The government is dropping charges against a Harvard researcher and Russian national who was found with preserved clawed frog embryo samples at Boston's Logan International Airport last year, according to a filing Tuesday evening.

  • November 03, 2026

    Birth Control Clip Maker Must Face Injury Case Trial

    Medical device importer and distributor CooperSurgical Inc. failed to secure quick wins on several claims in a bellwether product liability case alleging injuries from Filshie Clip birth control devices, with a Connecticut state judge finding that federal law does not preempt six women's failure-to-warn allegations.

  • November 03, 2026

    Youth File Fresh Appeal In Colo. Hospital Gender Care Suit

    Transgender youth patients of Children's Hospital Colorado have brought yet another challenge to a judge's discharge of their contempt citation against the hospital for not resuming providing them medical gender-affirming care, this time asking the Colorado Court of Appeals to weigh in on whether the hospital complied with an injunction.

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Life Sciences

Areas of Coverage

  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • U.S. International Trade Commission
  • POLICY & REGULATION
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
  • Antitrust and consumer protection controls
  • Drug and medical device lobbying
  • State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
  • ENFORCEMENT
  • Drug and medical device recalls
  • Drug safety actions
  • Pay-for-delay investigations
  • Merger reviews
  • LITIGATION
  • Patent disputes, including
  • Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
  • Section 301 cases
  • Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
  • Consumer litigation and class actions
  • Fraud and compliance suits
  • Antitrust disputes
  • Labor and employment suits
  • Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
  • Bankruptcy proceedings
  • TRANSACTIONS
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
  • Share buybacks and stock splits
  • Private equity deals
  • Patent-licensing agreements
  • PROFILES
  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of life sciences practice groups

Readership

  • Life sciences lawyers at top law firms
  • Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
  • Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
  • Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
  • Policymakers at federal and state agencies
  • Judges and court staff across the U.S.
  • Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
  • Attorney and law firm marketing professionals