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2025 State Privacy Changes: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know
In 2025, eight new U.S. state privacy laws took effect and several states tightened existing regulations, significantly impacting healthcare organizations. Major changes include strengthened opt-out rights, new protections for minors, expanded coverage to smaller entities, compliance incentives such as Tennessee’s NIST-based safe harbor, and increased enforcement—particularly around consumer-facing technologies and data disclosures….By: Husch Blackwell LLP
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AI Reporter – February 2026
OpenAI’s legal challenges continued with a wrongful death lawsuit filed in California claiming that design flaws in ChatGPT’s GPT-4o model intensified a man’s delusions about brain implants and assassination plots, leading to a murder-suicide. The complaint further alleges that OpenAI released GPT-4o despite known safety risks, and follows a separate lawsuit filed by the victim’s…
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Capping catastrophe: Is Ohio’s catastrophic-injury limit constitutional?
Last week, the Supreme Court of Ohio was asked if Ohio’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions was constitutional. On one side, John Paganini argued it was not as applied to him and asked the Court to affirm. On the other, The Cataract Eye Center of Cleveland (and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost)…
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What Dupixent Users Should Know in 2026: A Patient Advocacy Guide
If you or someone you love uses Dupixent, you may have recently seen television ads or online headlines linking the medication to rare forms of cancer. For many patients, this has caused confusion, fear, and frustration, especially for those who finally found relief after years of severe eczema or asthma….By: Morris James LLP
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Syrian Army Crosses New Threshold With Advances in Kurdish Regions
The advance of the Syrian Army into Kurdish regions could put nearly all the country under one authority. But it ends a dream of autonomy for ethnic Kurds.
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A Russian ‘Village of Military Valor’ Waits for Its Reward
Sedanka has only 250 residents, but dozens of its men left for the front. It is wondering whether recognition that the government promised will ever arrive.
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Rage. Grief. Anxiety. The New Mood in Iran.
In the aftermath of another wave of antigovernment unrest, Iran is gripped by a mood of collective grief and uncertainty about the future.
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In Hungary, Marco Rubio Stresses Trump’s Support for Viktor Orban
The U.S. secretary of state said in Budapest that the president was “deeply committed” to the success of Viktor Orban, who has boasted of creating an “illiberal state.”
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Iran Holds Exercises in Strait of Hormuz After Trump Threatens Military Action
The day before nuclear talks were set to resume, Iran conducted live drills in the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway for oil and gas shipments.
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Shedding Light on a Roma Artist, and the Fate of Her People
Ceija Stojka, who made visible the historical injustices to the Roma people during and after the Holocaust, is the subject of a stirring show at the Drawing Center.
