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Learn how legal definitions of healthcare shape what you can and can’t do as a health and wellness business, whether you’re a medical doctor, health technology company, medspa, or other [...]

Many doctors are trying to cash in on the beauty of operating a medical. For some doctors, the attraction is doing work that patients appreciate. Other doctors think the hours are better and that [...]

Naturally, like any other business model, augmenting one’s clientele may be a priority for medical and other healthcare practitioners. Is it legal to offer coupons and discounts?

FDA labeling is one of the most important regulatory requirements for dietary supplements in that it provides the consumer the necessary information on the product. Indeed, ensuring that all [...]

Telemedicine laws are increasingly permissive, as more and more states understand the value of providing healthcare services online instead of through brick-and-mortar.

Can healthcare and other startups creatively use Terms of Use to limit liability and Contract with Customers, creating clear expectations that manage their relationship with the end user?

FDA's tobacco products deeming rule hits companies with many compliance obligations for both existing tobacco products and new products "deemed" to be subject to FDA jurisdiction. This is a [...]

Blogger Patricia Salber, MD MBA featured Understanding whether a medical app needs FDA regulation can be tricky on The Doctor Weighs In. In this videotaped interview, held at the 2015 Stanford [...]

Healthcare reform and declining Medicare reimbursement have thrown physicians for a financial loop; how can medical doctors increase physician income despite healthcare reform?

Because marketing and distributing dietary supplements carries FDA risk, we offer sample strategies to reduce FDA risk when selling dietary supplements.

Expect to see more and more compliance enforcement actions against physician practices - and also more physician awareness of how they can pro-actively manage liability and follow legal [...]

The Supreme Court case of North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC is, in some ways, a watershed in terms of judicial resistance to monopolization of health care practices by a licensing board.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 & FDA attorney Michael H. Cohen is co-author of "Medico-Legal Issues in Cardiology," published by Cardiology in Review 2013;21:222-228. The article aims to educate physicians about the [...]