FDA & FTC Law

Many healthcare companies, practitioners, and patients, think that they can get away with bringing unapproved drugs into the U.S. and that the FDA Personal Importation Policy will cover [...]

Animal dietary supplement manufacturers and distributors can run afoul of FDA prohibitions against “drug” claims and receive an FDA warning letter, unless they understand how FDA regulates animal [...]

Substance abuse treatment centers must steer carefully when sending patients for labs. Self-referral, anti-kickback, and fee-splitting rules can create legal enforcement issues and must be [...]

If you have a medi-spa where the physician is never there but serves as “Medical Director,” think again. A lot of people misunderstand the concept of “medical director.” A medical director is [...]

Is it fee-splitting to hire another medical doctor, chiropractor, acupuncturist, or other health care practitioner in your office and give them a “cut” of patient revenues? Fee-splitting, [...]

Is it illegal for audiologists to dispense PSAPs? More broadly – are disruptive technologies also exploding healthcare professionals’ ability to prescribe or recommend to their patients? I [...]

WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE, YOU’LL BE WADING INTO CLINICAL WATERS THAT ARE OFTEN NAVIGATED BY MANY MEDICAL COLLEAGUES, YET NOT NECESSARILY ADOPTED WITHIN THE MAINSTREAM [...]

Avoid these common FDA mistakes marketing health products: communicating with FDA without legal counsel, making disease claims, misunderstanding the rules.

Our guest post this month is from Siegfried Othmer, Chief Scientist of the EEG Institute and President of the Brian Othmer Foundation, challenging this year’s FTC “brain training” enforcement.

For an OTC drug marketing legal checklist, 5 legal strategy steps can propel you to market.