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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You The cost of artificially short expiration dates: Worsened shortages, higher costs and more waste

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The cost of artificially short expiration dates: Worsened shortages, higher costs and more waste As drug shortages have made headlines over the past few years, the FDA has announced the extension of expiration dates on a variety of drug products.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

In our line of work, much of what we do depends on the continuing validity of what the FDA does with respect to prescription medical products. 341 (2001), is so important. It prevents plaintiffs in prescription medical product liability litigation from making collateral attacks on in-force FDA decisions. FDA , 727 F.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

In our line of work, much of what we do depends on the continuing validity of how the FDA regulates prescription medical products. 341 (2001), is so important. It prevents plaintiffs in prescription medical product liability litigation from making collateral attacks on in-force FDA decisions. FDA , 727 F. 1, 6 (D.D.C.

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

We’ve discussed recently how a federal statute intended to allow suits against international terrorists has been misapplied as allowing suits against pharmaceutical companies. Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co. , This litigation does not allege that anybody ever actually suffered from bladder cancer (or any other injury) from the drug.

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A Painful Preemption Decision

Drug & Device Law

555 (2009), a prescription drug preemption case, despite the relevant drug(s) being over-the-counter (“OTC”), and thus approved under an entirely different FDA regulatory process. ASH-ADHD is illustrative of the big difference that the “product liability” exception to express preemption for OTC drugs makes.

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Yet Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation: PhRMA’s Amicus Brief in Support of Petition for U.S. Supreme Court Review of the Fifth Circuit Decision

Drug & Device Law

FDA/Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. LLC litigation, in which an anti-abortion group is seeking to invalidate regulatory actions taken by the FDA with regard to mifepristone , a pharmaceutical FDA-approved for use in the termination of pregnancy to ten weeks, in combination with misoprostol. FDA , 727 F.

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Logical Contradiction Doctrine:  Buckman for Textualists

Drug & Device Law

The availability of this type of cutting-edge presentations is yet another reason why drug and medical device manufactures would be well served by joining PLAC. 341 (2001), with the rejection of the so-called “purposes and objectives” prong of implied preemption by the most conservative justices (at least in terms of federalism) on the Court.

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