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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

Among the barrage of drug ads for cancer, diabetes, weight loss and more are those for Lume , a “doctor-developed whole body deodorant.” ” The Patent Trail Rather than relying on social media, company websites, and testimonials, I consulted the Patent and Trademark database to reconstruct the story of invention.

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

at *6 (plaintiff “has documents and formularies reaching back to only 2009”). This time-tested type of evidence is mostly absent from the analysis in PATDC82 II – as in Neurontin , the only actual prescriber testimony belied plaintiffs’ position. First, the class plaintiff got away with destruction of evidence.

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Can Experts Rely on Google?

Drug & Device Law

at 287 (citing transcript of expert’s testimony). [A]t A]t first blush, [the expert’s] testimony. No other witness offered testimony on these unidentified standards. An excellent example is the Sherman case, which involved junk science causation testimony in what we call a “toxic soup” chemical exposure case.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Thus a confident learned intermediary’s testimony will defeat causation as a matter of law by stating that, notwithstanding a poor result, the treatment provided was standard of care, and even in hindsight they would not do anything different. 2009), reversed a plaintiff’s verdict for entry of judgment n.o.v. Medrano , 28 S.W.3d

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. The prescriber’s] testimony, however, does not establish that he would have altered his prescribing conduct. Given this testimony, the plaintiffs could not “show that stronger manufacturer warnings would have altered the physician’s prescribing conduct.”

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Doctors Without Burdens:  Another Mesh Court Goes Backwards

Drug & Device Law

For instance, plaintiffs in the vast majority of cases know that they will need evidence from a prescribing physician, testimony or affidavit for summary judgment and testimony for trial. It focused squarely on the doctor. The second was the decision below. Corder , 473 F.Supp.3d Corder , 473 F.Supp.3d 3d 736 at 743.

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