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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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Women in STEM with Dr Catherine Sheehan

Drug Target Review

The regulatory science project I pursued for my first master’s degree titled, “21st Century Pharmaceutical Excipients: Consequences of a Global Supply Chain and Lack of Excipient Regulations” aimed to draw attention to the risks created by the lack of sufficient oversight of the pharmaceutical excipient supply chain.

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Healthcare, HIPAA, Sitecore and BAAs

Perficient: Drug Development

Before I begin, I just want to caveat everything with the fact that HIPAA is a complex regulation open to interpretation, and in the end your legal and compliance teams need to be comfortable with how you handle data and the risk associated with those methods. The other part of the definition is what constitutes “health information.”

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Article FDA Thank You FDA gives companies leeway to go after misinformation, but not free reign

Agency IQ

BY LAURA DIANGELO, MPH | JUL 10, 2024 3:47 PM CDT Regulatory background: The FDA is responsible for overseeing information about regulated products. The FDA is responsible for ensuring that medical products are adequately labeled in accordance with federal regulations, including the product’s “intended use” and relevant safety information.

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Medicare for All: Pros & Cons

H1 Blog

Medicare for All Means Universal Coverage & Care Medicare for All proposals definitely have worthy goals. Perhaps the most talked-about concept, however, is Medicare for All, the single-payer federal program that would replace private insurance and provide healthcare coverage to all U.S. Out of pocket cost is often a barrier to care.

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Where's the Synthetic Blood?

Codon

While blood doesn’t fit neatly into the various definitions of an organ , it still comprises a discrete system with specific functions. “Synthetic plasmas,” transfused to regulate blood pressure and pH, are really just salt water (electrolytes) and maybe some albumin (to help with blood volume/pressure).

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Analysis Chemical Thank You What’s going on in the world of PFAS – early 2024 edition

Agency IQ

What’s going on in the world of PFAS – early 2024 edition This feature from AgencyIQ focuses on the wide world of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance regulation, legislation, and litigation around the United States. An AgencyIQ explainer on the EPA’s definition of PFAS may be reviewed here.] since June 21, 2006.