FDA & FTC Law

Wearable technology legal and regulatory issues can sidetrack your wearable tech venture, unless you're savvy about navigating the legal landscape. Wear your wearable tech on your sleeve - not [...]

As medicine moves from Physical, to Virtual, to Mobile, to Wearable, to Implantable, new privacy legal issues arise, bringing legislative attention.

Attorney Michael H. Cohen, President of the Michael H. Cohen Law Group, was interviewed on LA Talk Radio's Legal Help Desk by cyber-lawyer Salar Atrizadeh on the future of health care.

The best way to select a healthcare lawyer or FDA attorney (or FDA regulatory consultant) for legal advice about your health and wellness service, practice, facility, or product, is to follow [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won a $2.2 million judgment against health food marketer Wellness Support Network, Inc. (WSN) in federal court for the “Diabetic Pack” and the “Insulin [...]

California stem cell laws boost the stem cell industry by funding stem cell research, but the product side of industry is largely in the hands of the FDA.

To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a cosmetic is just a cosmetic – and sometimes it’s a drug.... Which is it—drug or cosmetic? The answer, FDA says, depends on intended use.

The federal appellate decision in U.S. v. Regenerative Sciences, LLC (see Court upholds FDA's legal authority to regulate stem cell therapies) also reflects FDA's evolving legal authority over [...]

FDA survived a legal challenge to its authority to regulate stem cells as drugs, in a landmark decision by the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. FDA had cited Regenerative [...]

If you wanted to upgrade the old film, "The Graduate," you'd have Dustin Hoffman's character shouting out "stem cells!" instead of "plastics!" Of course, he would immediate meet his favorite [...]