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People who are fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus don’t need to wear face masks when walking, hiking, biking, running alone or gathering in small groups outside, federal health officials said, taking a major step to ease pandemic guidance while encouraging more people to get shots. The same applies to conducting those forms of exercise […]

 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it was planning on banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, citing the disproportionate health impact on minority groups. The agency said that it intends to ban menthol within the next year. There’s strong evidence that banning menthol in cigarettes will help people quit smoking, singling out one

Talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels Inc. has reached a deal to end a California teacher’s suit alleging her mesothelioma was a result of the asbestos-tainted talc it supplied to makers of talcum powder. Attorneys for both longtime California teacher Linda Zimmerman and Whittaker confirmed Tuesday they reached a deal to resolve Zimmerman’s claims yet

A Florida federal jury hit 3M with a $7.1 million verdict Friday, most of it punitive damages, in the first bellwether trial in a massive multidistrict litigation involving military members’ claims that their hearing was irreparably harmed because the company’s combat earplugs didn’t work. The jury awarded $2.1 million in punitive damages to each of

The Biden administration is making plans to share millions of doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and preparing a major effort to help India fight a resurgence of the virus, as calls mount for the U.S. to do more to assist developing countries in confronting the pandemic. The White House said Monday it would share

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an effort by paint maker Sherwin-Williams to stop a Pennsylvania county’s lead paint litigation before it started. The Justices’ unsigned order denied a cert petition from Sherwin-Williams, which sought to argue that the company could sue to stop Delaware County from signing a contingency agreement

While hopes are rising that a rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is helping to tame the pandemic in the U.S., in much of the world the virus is still surging. Covid-19 case rates across the globe are at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic, illustrating the continuing race between vaccinations and the

The Fifth Circuit has thrown out a pair of suits against Sanofi U.S. Services Inc. alleging it failed to warn women that its chemotherapy drug Taxotere could cause permanent hair loss, finding the plaintiffs should have looked sooner into the cause of their injury. In an opinion filed late Wednesday, the three-judge panel found the

Cases accusing a Pennsylvania cookware company of selling pots and pans that turn dangerously sharp after trips through the dishwasher will be grouped together in a Pittsburgh federal court, where a judge brought together four cases Thursday. U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan will oversee the multidistrict litigation against Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based All-Clad Metalcrafters LLC after

The Eleventh Circuit has sent a suit back to court that alleges a surgical tool made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. caused internal burns during a woman’s hysterectomy, saying the district court was wrong to disqualify the woman’s expert on the basis of him having never used the tool. In a published opinion filed Thursday, the