Patient-death lawsuit reinstated against drugmaker

A federal appeals court has reinstated litigation against a pharmaceutical company in a young man's death, ruling a lower court had improperly excluded experts' testimony. Maxx Wendell, who died at age 21 in 2007 of hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma, a very rare and aggressive cancer, had been treated for many years previously with a combination of drugs for inflammatory bowel disease, according to Friday's ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in Stephen Wendell; Lisa Wendell et al. v.

Local residents share thoughts on Affordable Care Act repeal and replace(WLFI).

The Trump Administration is taking steps toward repealing and replacing former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. It's still not known how many Republicans are dissecting the health law, but it is known that some elements of the ACA are likely to survive.

Obamacare subscribers decry possible repeal

Josh Scussell has fought his non-Hodgkins lymphoma for years, enduring stem-cell transplants and rounds of chemotherapy as doctors worked to sustain his life. But the Guilford resident on Wednesday said the real reason he's still among the living is the federal Affordable Care Act - otherwise known as Obamacare - that the newly elected Republican majority in Congress intends to repeal.