What Are FDA Warning Letters and How Do They Impact You?

FDA Warning Letters are formal notifications issued when the FDA finds significant regulatory violations in areas like labeling, marketing, or manufacturing practices. While a warning letter [...]

Advertising Compliance for Medical Devices: FTC and FDA Requirements

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finely regulate the promotion compliance of medical devices—both in terms of the claims made and in the manner of [...]

Can the Federal Trade Commission File Complaints Against Businesses That Target Consumer Locations Without the Consent of the Consumer?

The Federal Trade Commission is beginning to require that marketing companies understand that the collection, use, and sale of consumer location information requires the consent of the consumer

How Developers Can Benefit from the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) New Innovation Policies

In the last decade, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has implemented many new programs to help developers obtain authorization of medical devices

FDA Grants Accelerated Approval for a New Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment

The FDA recently approved the drug, of Leqembi, a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, through the accelerated approval process.

FDA Laws and Regulations About The Metaverse

Many metaverse augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and other med-tech applications will need to meet FDA medical device requirements.

Legal Compliance Issues for Integrative Cardiology

Integrative cardiology practitioners, doctors and non-physicians, need to review their working relationship for violations of state licensing laws, HIPAA, self-referral laws, and other legal [...]

HIPAA and Access. Legal Summary and Recent Investigations

The HHS Office of Civil Rights has guidance on how and when covered entities should respond to a right of access request for the personal health information of a patient.

Relaxing Vaccine Dosage and Food Label Requirements

The Food and Drug Administration issues a press release that said, even though the pandemic is severe, patients should receive the mRNA vaccines in two properly timed doses.

Johnson and Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Reviewed by FDA Soon

Johnson & Johnson’s adenovirus-based vaccine for preventing the transmission of COVID-19 is expected to be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration in February 2021.

FDA Warning Letters – COVID-19 Testing Kits

FDA is sending warning letters to companies that claim the company can diagnose COVID-19. FDA has granted an Emergency Use Authorization) for at least one at-home testing kit.

FDA Reviewing Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine

An Advisory Panel for the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request by Moderna for its COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine is expected to be distributed in the coming months.

FDA Approves Authorized Use of a COVID-19 Test Product

FDA granted emergency use authorization to Lucira Health Inc. for a COVID-19 self-testing kit. The EUA has numerous conditions that the manufacturer must meet.

FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

FDA granted an Emergency Use Authorization to a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer, Inc. Doses of the vaccine have already been administered to health workers

3 Ways Marketing Claims Can Destroy Healthcare Companies: FTC, Plaintiff Trolls, & State Regulatory Agencies

Here’s why you need legal review of any information your healthcare company puts out on the Web: advertising claims can not only hurt, they can destroy your healthcare company.

Why Medical Device Companies Need to Fear FDA Warning Letters

The FDA examines whether medical devices comply with the regulations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Two of the most common violations medical device companies are charged are adulteration [...]

September 2020 FDA Warning Letters

FDA and FTC warning letters continue to find violations of the FD&C Act when companies boast their products can cure or treat diseases such as COVID-19.

FDA Warning Letters Can Cause Cosmetic Companies to Lose Revenue and Face Substantial Fines

FDA might classify your cosmetics product as a new drug if you make disease claims for your cosmetics product. FDA also requires that you substantiate your claims and have safe ingredients

Red Flags that Leads to FDA Warning Letters

The FDA issues warning letters for numerous products including dietary supplements. FDA violations include findings that the supplement is a new drug, product adulteration, misbranding, and [...]

Medical Tourism Model can raise FDA and FTC Legal Issues

Jane’s Herbal Healthcare Startup is an ambitious collaboration with overseas physicians who use herbal medicine to treat certain diseases, based on some theory from another, indigenous system of [...]

A CBD Oil Business Case Study

A case study of the legal and regulatory concerns when a company wants to begin selling hemp and marijuana CBD products in California. The relevant federal and state laws are reviewed along with [...]

Why Health Companies Need to Know How the FDA and FTC Enforce Regenerative Medicine Industry Violations

Avoid or mitigate potential FDA and FTC enforcement actions against stem cell and regenerative healthcare companies, including for false claims, by learning these legal keys

Why the FDA Won’t Approve Your Regenerative Medicine Practice

Regenerative medicine includes many treatments and products such as stem cell therapy, PRP, and gene therapy. An experienced stem cell and regenerative medicine lawyer can explain the FDA requirements.

New Farm Bill Opens Up Opportunities for the CBD Oil Market- If Companies Comply with the Legal and Regulatory Requirements

The Farm Bill of 2018 legalized CBD products that are hemp based for certain pharmaceutical uses. Food and dietary supplement possibilities may follow. Many different federal and state laws and [...]

Need-to-Know Laws and Regulations for Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative medicine includes products and treatments that can be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The laws are changing as this industry evolves.

Numerous CBD Business Opportunities where Sales are Legal

The legalization of many CBD oil products has opened the door to many new business opportunities. It is critical to review how each product is manufactured, classified, branded, marketed, and [...]

FTC Revised Online Endorsement Guidelines – Part Two

Makers of health care products and health care providers need to understand the FTC guidelines on soliciting endorsements, affiliate marketing, employee endorsements, and permissible testimonials [...]

FTC Revised Online Endorsement Guidelines

Answers to commonly asked questions about the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) endorsement guidelines.

Can Paying Attention to These Common FDA Mistakes Save Your Healthcare Company from a Plaintiffs’ Lawsuit?

Common FDA mistakes that cause healthcare companies to get sued

Signs that shape the landscape of the healthcare industry

Healthcare venture should always look out for unlicensed practice of medicine issues.

How to avoid FDA enforcement by not avoiding FDA in the first place – the top mistake companies typically make when marketing healthcare products

Starting a healthcare company without having prior FDA legal and regulatory review can place your company in serious jeopardy.

Hoping to Take Advantage of the New Medical Possibilities with Stem Cell Therapies? Be Informed.

The FDA has developed new guidelines that expand the safety requirements and manufacturing standards for stem cell treatments.

3 FDA Legal Traps When Marketing your Dietary Supplement Product

Learn how to avoid these FDA legal traps when marketing your dietary supplement product.

7 Legal Keys to Getting Your OTC Drug to Market

Wondering how to get your OTC drug to market? This FDA OTC drug primer tells you how.

10 Legal Tips to Stop FDA from Classifying Your Dietary Supplement as a Drug

Your dietary supplement products could be regulated as a new drug by FDA, unless you pay attention to these regulatory fundamentals.

The Shocking Truth About FDA Dietary Supplement Labeling: 3 Things You Must Know

As they say in Game of Thrones, “Winter is Coming.” It’s a grim statement that reminds everyone that ahead is nothing but snow and ice. When you’re preparing to launch your dietary supplement [...]