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The case was set to go to trial on Feb. 20 and instead, will now be dismissed, the British drugmaker said in a statement.

Bayer has won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weedkiller, ending what had been a five-trial losing streak for the company in trials over similar claims.

Six U.S. states are joining the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit seeking to block Amgen’s $27.8 billion buyout of rare disease biotech Horizon Therapeutics, Reuters reported on Thursday.

A California judge’s decision to allow expert testimony linking GSK’s heartburn drug Zantac to cancer wasn’t a surprise, analysts said, though the litigation will likely weigh on the drugmaker’s share price until a trial in the summer.

Governor Gavin Newsom made this announcement via a tweet on Monday, days after the pharmacy chain said it would not dispense abortion pills in some Republican-dominated states.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a $302 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit brought by the state of California accusing the company of concealing the risks of its pelvic mesh products.

A unit of medical device maker Medtronic plc must pay $106.5 million to competitor Colibri Heart Valve LLC for patent infringement, a Santa Ana, California federal jury said Wednesday.

California is suing the United States’ leading insulin makers and pharmacy benefit managers, accusing them of using their market power to overcharge patients for the life-saving drug, the state’s attorney general announced on Thursday.

Both Bristol-Myers Squibb and AbbVie separately filed notices with the California state government stating they intend to lay off up to 360 people in the state.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency over monkeypox on Monday in a move aimed at bolstering vaccination efforts to slow the spread of an outbreak that has infected more than 5,800 Americans.