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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.

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've designed a home health kit to test for, say, pregnancy or HIV, can you go ahead and market the product without FDA clearance or state law authorization? FDA regulates some health test [...]

The Daily Journal published FDA’s General Wellness Guidance is Welcome News by healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen. The article (Cohen.P.0129) goes through FDA's general wellness guidance [...]

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.

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 [...]