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Small businesses that provide health insurance must now make extra efforts to protect their employees’ personal information, under a new federal regulation. The goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s new security rule, which went into effect on Friday, is to adopt national standards to protect the confidentiality …

WASHINGTON – Brand-name pharmaceutical companies have resumed paying generic drug manufacturers to stay off the market under the terms of some legal settlements, attracting renewed scrutiny from federal regulators, trade officials said Monday. For the first time since 1999, brand-name and generic drug makers are entering patent challenge agreements under …

CAMDEN, N.J. – After Ellen Krips’ cousin died of an overdose of extremely potent drugs last week, the heroin addict’s first thought was not how she could avoid the bad junk. It was more like: I have to get some of that stuff. A bad batch of drugs for sale …