Healthcare Law

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 [...]

Concierge medicine legal issues require adroit navigation as medical practices continue to move into concierge and hybrid models. Our law firm handles concierge medicine practices, providing [...]

Our concierge medicine lawyers represent physicians and medical practices seeking to develop concierge medicine practices, and so we see many questions about the legality of "packaging" medical [...]

HIPAA compliance is mandatory, not optional, with both federal and state governments stepping up HIPAA enforcement.Recently, our Los Angeles HIPAA lawyers have handled HIPAA breaches involving [...]

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 [...]

There's an old quote that says: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" And what if your friendly neighborhood chiropractor asks you to be Medical Director, especially in California? [...]

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 [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today proposed to update the Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods to reflect the latest scientific information.

Just as the silicon "ink" dried on Telemedicine: The Future of Medicine, someone, somewhere, pronounced that there is a future for medicine beyond the future. This was no sweat for me, since I'm [...]

California and other state medical boards still run undercover investigations for unlicensed practice of medicine. California is in the minority of states that have a statute that authorizes [...]

Legalzoom featured Telemedicine: The Future of Health Care, by Los Angeles healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen, as the lead article in its Insight newsletter.

Julie Migneault: Your Soul Fully Expressed features a Skype interview with healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen, entitled: "From Wall Street to Awakening: How to Bridge Your Passions & [...]

The FDA's final Guidance for Industry and FDA staff on mobile medical apps continues to constrain industry development of new health apps. Like the draft mobile medical app FDA guidance, the [...]

Several important pieces of federal telemedicine legislation, introduced in the past 12-18 months, could affect the way medicine and healthcare are practiced through online, virtual, and mobile means.

FDA flexed its jurisdictional muscle by warning 23andMe that its marketing of the 23andMe saliva test kit and personal genome service without marketing clearance or approval violated that federal [...]

Healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen spoke on "Ancient Wisdom & Modern Technology" on ExitCoach Radio. Today, there are many healthcare and wellness related businesses popping up