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As gyms and medical fitness centers expand the services and products they offer and depend more on physician referrals and doctor employment, compliance review becomes a must.

Some of the common questions that come up on health and wellness industry.

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 [...]

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

While recent legal developments have loosened legal strictures around truthful, non-misleading, off-label promotion of drugs, there are legal limits to an off-label promotion strategy. Here [...]

Is an online directory of healthcare centers a medical referral service? We’ve had several online directories of healthcare services ask us what legal rules govern their operation. Below we [...]

FTC tackles native advertising and sponsored content in an Enforcement Policy Statement on Deceptively Formatted Advertisements.

If you want to sell healthcare products online, the legal hurdles can be steep. 

Substantiating claims matters whenever you bring a dietary supplement, cosmetic (or skin care product), or medical device to market - why?

Whenever you market a healthcare product, beware of potential FDA and FTC enforcement as well as private plaintiffs who can sue for false advertising, unfair competition, deceptive and misleading [...]

If you want to know where the next healthcare revolution will come from, look inside. Physical medicine becomes virtual medicine, becomes mobile healthcare, becomes wearable health and then [...]

New York's Attorney General initiated the investigation against major retailers of herbal supplements, based on DNA testing of plant materials suggesting contaminants, and mislabeling; was the [...]

You could burn 50 calories just by reading this blog post. Or not. But if you sell a weight loss product with false, deceptive, and misleading claims, you'll burn a lot more calories when the [...]

Recently a physician called me, raving about HCG for weight loss, letting me know he recommends HCG to all his obese patients, because he lost over 150 pounds on HCG. "The scientific evidence is [...]

If you want to know how not to offend the FDA and FTC sequentially, here's an instructive lesson about a company that has gotten a big regulatory bruise.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed to settle charges with two marketing companies promoting "shapewear garments" with "slimming claims for caffeine-infused products." FTC vigorously [...]

How do you market an emerging healthcare practice, without running afoul of regulatory walls, from federal and state advertising law to licensing laws, and the law governing unfair business practices?

The FTC's guidance for digital (online) advertising applies to all business advertising on websites, mobile phone applications, or anywhere online (i.e., including on Facebook, smartphones, etc.).

Health and wellness mobile apps and online programs raise a variety of legal and regulatory issues that require legal expertise in structuring a health education or healthcare products or [...]

The FTC Statement to Congress on Deceptive Marketing of Dietary Supplements is a good place to begin to understand legal compliance issues regarding marketing