Brian Mann
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Efforts to reach a national opioid settlement hit another big snag as many states balked at an $18 billion offer from drug wholesalers.
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Medicaid expansion is making people healthier. It's also costing states more than expected. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is scrambling to close a $6 billion deficit tied to Medicaid expansion.
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This was meant to be the year we answered a big question about the deadly opioid epidemic: Will drug companies that make and sell prescription pain medications be held liable? That clarity never came.
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Kristin Kimball's second book — published nearly two decades after she left New York City to start a farm upstate — explores the ways in which farming has shaped her life and marriage in middle age.
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Federal prosecutors are continuing their probe of the drug industry's role in the opioid epidemic, but it's unclear if the Justice Department will charge companies with criminal wrong-doing.
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The impeachment battle is playing out with remarkable intensity in a N.Y. congressional district. Republican Elise Stefanik has emerged as a big supporter of the president, but there's been backlash.
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Two Ohio counties reached a deal Monday with the drug industry valued at about $260 million. Local officials say the money from drug makers and distributors is desperately needed to fight the crisis.
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Three U.S. drug distributors and a manufacturer reached a last-minute deal with two Ohio counties Monday, avoiding what would have been the first trial in a federal case on the opioid crisis.
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Four defendants, including three big U.S. distributors, have struck a deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties. It doesn't resolve thousands of other lawsuits filed against the firms across the U.S.
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While most Republican attorneys general embrace Purdue Pharma's structured bankruptcy plan, all but two Democratic attorneys general reject it. "This is a moral issue for them," one expert says.