Welcome to Capsule, where we’ll give you your weekly dose of what to watch out for in the health-care space. Each Monday our reporters get you prepped for the week’s hottest health-care topics.
Jacquie: This week Judge Dan Polster—you know, the judge who’s overseeing that massive opioid trial in Cleveland later this month—will respond to a request to pause local governments’ lawsuits in favor of giving states the first swing at the drug companies and distributors. That request was filed last week by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and other state attorneys general who have their own opioid lawsuits ...