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Morrison & Foerster LLP

When Your Life Sciences Are on the Line: False Claims Act

Morrison Foerster partners Kate Driscoll and Nate Mendell, both former federal prosecutors and members of the firm’s Investigations + White Collar Defense Group, hosted the ninth episode of When Your Life Sciences Are on the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New HHS-OIG Guidance on Sponsored Genetic-Testing Programs

On December 17, 2024, the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued its second favorable advisory opinion involving an arrangement in which a drug manufacturer sponsors genetic...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Beyond HIPAA: FTC’s Data Protection Authority Results in Settlement with Genetic Testing Company

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A recent enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) against 1Health.io—which sells “DNA Health Test Kits” to consumers for health and ancestry insights—serves as a reminder that the FTC is increasingly...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Genetic Testing Fraud: A New Wave of Medicine, a New Wave of Enforcement Actions

Genetic testing is a burgeoning area of preventative and predictive medicine. Such testing enables greater insight into a patient's unique genetic makeup and, in turn, more tailored and individualized medical decisions....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Checking In On FDA’s Enforcement Discretion Policy for Laboratory Developed Tests

• In a recent warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised a laboratory to seek marketing authorization for its genetic tests that qualified as laboratory developed tests (LDTs)—which have largely benefited...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FDA Issues Warning Letter to Lab Marketing Three Laboratory-Developed Tests

In an April 4, 2019 Press Release, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its issuance of a Warning Letter to Inova Genomics Laboratory (Inova) in Virginia for marketing genetic tests for predicting medication...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

FDA Warns Against Direct-to-Consumer Lab Developed Tests

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Despite it being a continual topic of discussion, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement in the realm of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) has been relatively quiet in recent years. That is, until earlier this...more

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