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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

  • May 01, 2026

    Pharma Aims Torpedo At FCA After Bombshell 9th Circ. Ruling

    A burgeoning campaign against the False Claims Act's whistleblower mechanism is suddenly center stage at the Ninth Circuit, where pharmaceutical companies say a momentous new ruling "illustrates perfectly" the constitutional concerns of U.S. Supreme Court justices regarding FCA enforcement.

  • May 01, 2026

    Judge, Atty Get In Shouting Match At Fatal Overdose Trial

    Tensions boiled over in a Philadelphia courtroom Friday at the end of an emotionally fraught trial over a man's fatal opioid overdose, with a judge and lawyer shouting at each other about how to figure out an inconclusive verdict spurred by a seemingly confused juror.

  • May 01, 2026

    Twist Bioscience Investors Seek $17M Stock Fraud Deal OK

    Twist Bioscience Corp. and two executives asked a California federal court to give preliminary approval to a $17 million deal they inked with investors to resolve class allegations the company misrepresented that its technology could produce synthetic DNA at higher quality and lower cost than competitors.

  • May 01, 2026

    Amazon Accused Of Selling Kids Sunscreen With Lead

    Consumers on Thursday hit Amazon with a proposed class action in Washington federal court alleging that children's sunscreens it sells are contaminated with heavy metals such as lead and that its artificial intelligence shopping assistant Rufus doesn't disclose details about the product ingredients.

  • May 01, 2026

    Fla. Jury Hears Menthol Smoker Succumbed To Addiction

    A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.

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