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Once you "friend" your refrigerator on Facebook (because it's that smart, and knows about your dietary and nutritional habits than your doctor), healthcare will be unrecognizable even to fans of [...]

Today a client asked me, "are you worried about the drought?" I said, "No, I'm worried about AI eating the world."

No sooner had the ink dried on my post, Telemedicine: The Medicine of the Future, than some blogger pronounced telemedicine the "medicine of the past." There, by a stroke of the pen, someone [...]

Healthcare & FDA lawyer Michael H Cohen speaks on MHealth & Wearable Health Technology: Will FDA Legal Compliance Stymie or Promote Innovation, at the Health Law Section of the Los Angeles County [...]

If you're in any business at all, you must read Data Crush: How the Information Tidal Wave Is Driving New Business Opportunities by Christopher Surdak; pay extra attention to Data Crush if you're [...]

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 [...]

In the showdown at the commercial coral between concierge medical practices and retail medicine, which one will trump? With these two behemoths taking such a chunk out of traditional medical [...]

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.

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 [...]

Unlike California, which provides clear guidance regarding legal and enforcement hot buttons for medical spas and integrative care clinics, Massachusetts law requires more digging.

Yoga therapy brings the art of yoga to therapeutic issues and is a natural extension of yoga for wellness and general health; but when does yoga therapy cross the line into unlicensed practice?

Concierge Medicine Today featured “Does Concierge Medicine Advertising Create Liability” by healthcare and FDA Michael H. Cohen. The article analyzes the recent verdict against MDVIP based on [...]

Virtual reality in medicine and health will augment and expand our sense of reality - yet it's only a harbinger of deeper access to consciousness.

"I provide medical (or acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathic, massage) services on an hourly basis and get paid a percentage of revenues in return.” Is that fee-splitting?

Bay Area / San Francisco and Los Angeles lawyer Michael H Cohen was quoted by CNBC in USA Today on healthcare issues.

When you launch any virtual, electronic, online, mobile, or other non-physical telemedicine or telehealth venture, you have to navigate several interlocking, overlapping legal issues, from [...]

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 [...]

Neurofeedback has been shown effective for treating of a variety of physical and mental disorders, but can or should neurofeedback (or any promising therapy that can be self-administered, or [...]

How do you wear two licensed hats at the same time - if, for example, you're an medical doctor (MD) and a chiropractor (DC), or a chiropractor and an acupuncturist - or, a naturopathic physician [...]

Even if HIPAA doesn't technically apply to your wearable tech venture, mobile medical app, or telemedicine project, state laws have mirror privacy and security provisions with which your company [...]