The Case The multiple lawsuits against arguably the biggest contributors to the opioid crisis, Purdue Pharma and the company’s founders the Sackler family, claim that both entities participated in massive false advertising. (Other companies targeted in the lawsuit...
The Policy The Trump Administration announced a proposal banning flavored e-cigarettes and products amid cries for stricter regulation after the death of 12 people and a mysterious pulmonary sickness that has affected over 800, as of Sept 27, 2019. New York has...
The Case Amid cries to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for their role in the nation-wide opioid epidemic that killed 47,000 Americans in 2017 alone, an Oklahoma court has done just that. Judge Thad Balkman ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million,...
Policy The Trump Administration has proposed a change that will affect the way in which states determine who qualifies for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program, known as SNAP and food stamps. The proposal tightens restrictions and closes a “loophole” that...
Policy For the third year in a row, the Trump administration is withholding funding to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The UN Population Fund is an agency that deploys into war zones and natural disaster-wrecked areas providing health services to the vulnerable. The...
Policy New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ended religious exemptions by amending the provision in NY A02371, to combat rising anti-vaccination communities. Since January 1st of this year, there have been 1,077 cases of measles in 28 states, an increase from 372 from 2018,...
