Final Guidance Further Expands Scope of Permissible Proactive Off-Label Communications -
On January 6, 2025, FDA finalized its guidance entitled Communications From Firms to Health Care Providers Regarding Scientific...more
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in the Federal Register the issuance of a draft guidance entitled “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented...more
An ordinance (« arrêté ») was published in the French Official Gazette of 8 March 2022 that sets out a quality charter overseeing the professional practices of individuals responsible for the presentation of educational...more
In December 2016, fifteen Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including then-Commissioner Robert Califf and current Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine...more
If Sustained, Court Decision Will Require Disclosure of Results for a Decade of Certain Clinical Trials -
Section 801 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (“Section 801”), which is codified at 42...more
3/4/2020
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In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued a total of ten enforcement letters targeting advertising and promotion violations for prescription drugs. Of the ten...more
Implications for 510(k) Submissions -
On September 20, 2019, FDA issued four separate draft guidance documents for industry and FDA administration staff that provide extensive objective performance criteria (OPC) for five...more
A Summary of Final Guidances for Communications That Are Consistent with FDA-Required Labeling and Communications with Payors -
On June 12, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) finalized two draft...more
6/21/2018
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In 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued a total of five enforcement letters that cited violations related to the advertising and promotion of prescription...more
Would Not Require Collaboration by the Drug Sponsor; FDA Requests Comments on Potential Approach -
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requests comment on a potential approval pathway for “ devices referencing drugs”...more
In a landmark ruling for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, a unanimous Supreme Court decided Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc., 582 U.S. ____, Nos. 15-1039, 15-1195 (June 12, 2017), its first biosimilar case governed by the...more
On January 18, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) released for public comment a Memorandum, Public Health Interests and First Amendment Considerations Related to Manufacturer Communications Regarding...more
On September 21, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule that greatly expands the information that sponsors of “applicable drug clinical trials” and “applicable device clinical trials”...more
10/27/2016
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