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Southcoast Health Launches New Website in Partnership with Fruition
New digital platform enhances user experience and accessibility for patients and healthcare providers MA, UNITED STATES, October 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Fruition is pleased to announce the successful launch of a newly redesigned website...

Rhode Island district court denies drug company efforts to block state’s 340B contract pharmacy law
The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island Sept. 30 denied motions from AbbVie and Novartis seeking a preliminary injunction against the state’s law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements. The two companies were...

Green Security Announces Agreement in Principle to Acquire Predicata to Transform Healthcare Vendor and Product Access
The companies will join forces to strengthen vendor partnerships through value analysis to enhance access, quality and oversight CLEARWATER, FL, UNITED STATES, October 9, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Green Security, a leading SaaS provider of...


State mental health rankings released: New York and Hawaii rank highest, Nevada and Arizona rank lowest
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New York, Hawaii, and New Jersey ranked best in the nation across common measures of mental health in 2022 and 2023, according to the latest State of Mental Health in America report from Mental...

Attorneys general issue joint statement affirming the safety of and access to medical abortion drug
Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in issuing a joint statement addressing concerns over a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of mifepristone. “For more than 25 years, mifepristone has been...

Do Not Drink Notice for Western Coventry Elementary School
RHODE ISLAND, October 16 - The Western Coventry Elementary School public water system is required to issue a do not drink notice for consumers because the level of manganese in the distribution system was higher than the health advisory limit....

Attorney General James Takes Action to Protect Health Education Programs
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today joined a coalition of 15 other attorneys general in suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for illegally requiring states to change sexual education programs to erase...

Oregon co-leads multi-state lawsuit over illegal conditions to programs that support comprehensive sexual health education
The Trump administration is threatening to pull funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language affirming young people’s gender identity. In response, Oregon, alongside 15...

WA leads states suing over illegal conditions to programs that support comprehensive sexual health education
The Trump administration is threatening to pull funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language affirming young people’s gender identity. In response, Washington Attorney...

Connecticut Sues to Block Illegal Conditions on Programs that Support Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
Press Releases 09/26/2025 Connecticut Sues to Block Illegal Conditions on Programs that Support Comprehensive Sexual Health Education (Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong and a coalition of 16 states and the District Columbia today sued...

Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Coalition in Filing Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Block Trump Administration from Defunding Planned Parenthood and Other Health Centers
OAKLAND — Co-leading a coalition of 22 attorneys general and the state of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration from enforcing the “Defund Provision”...

Washington joins state and local governments opposing EPA’s unsupported attempt to deny that greenhouse gases endanger public health
Washington, along with a coalition of other states and local governments, is opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to undo its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare by...

Seven Barton Gilman Attorneys Named to 2025 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES, October 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Seven Barton Gilman attorneys have been named to the 2025 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists, a directory of leading attorneys who are evaluated on various...

SCAN Continues to Expand Leadership Team to Align with Strategy of Becoming a National Medicare Payer
New leaders bring proven expertise to guide SCAN’s next phase of growth and expansion LONG BEACH, CA, UNITED STATES, October 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- SCAN Group, a diversified nonprofit healthcare organization that operates SCAN Health...

Attorney General Tong Supports Challenge to Executive Orders Unlawfully Targeting Transgender Individuals and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Initiatives
Press Releases 10/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Supports Challenge to Executive Orders Unlawfully Targeting Transgender Individuals and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Initiatives (Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong, as...

Boston Bruins Star Charlie McAvoy Chooses Leonard Hair Transplant Associates for Hair Transplant Procedure
NEWTON CENTRE, MA, UNITED STATES, October 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy, one of the NHL’s brightest young stars, is making headlines off the ice after choosing Leonard Hair Transplant Associates (LHTA)...

Attorney General James Takes Action to Protect Clean Energy for Vulnerable Communities
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a coalition of plaintiffs in filing two lawsuits to protect billions of dollars in grant funding that would connect nearly one million households nationwide in low-income and vulnerable...

Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Coalition in Defense of First Amendment Protections for Noncitizen Students and Faculty
Attorneys general urge the court to uphold First Amendment free speech protections in opposition to Trump Administration’s unconstitutional ideological deportation policy OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside the attorneys...

Man Dies from Injuries Sustained in September Crash
The Metropolitan Police Department continues to investigate a crash involving a pedestrian that occurred in September. The victim succumbed to his injuries Monday. On Monday, September 29, 2025, at approximately 8:18 p.m., Fifth District officers...