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Ropes & Gray LLP

FDA Commissioner Makary Promises “Real Time” Release of Complete Response Letters: Can FDA Really Do That?

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On July 10, 2025, in the name of embracing “radical transparency,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced that it was publishing more than 200 complete response letters (“CRLs”) issued in response to drug and...more

Jones Day

FDA on Board With Continuing Remote Inspections

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The Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") recently issued revised draft guidance on remote regulatory assessments ("RRAs")—voluntary or mandatory examinations of food, drug, device, and tobacco establishments and/or their...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Unpacking Averages: Sample Size for Clinical Trials Used to Obtain FDA Medical Device Clearance

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Our latest focus is trying to bring data to bear on common questions we get asked by clients. Last month the topic was: how well does my device need to perform to get premarket clearance from FDA? This month it is: how big...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

FDA Revises Guidance Concerning Scientific Communications to HCPs about Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical Products

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a long-awaited revised draft guidance on October 23, 2023, which focuses on communications to healthcare providers (HCPs) regarding scientific information on unapproved uses...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Trend Toward Broader Communication Continues as Congress Codifies Life Sciences Companies’ Ability To Share Product Information...

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Embedded in the thousands of pages of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (the omnibus legislation) that President Joe Biden signed into law on December 29, 2022, is a section that amends the Food, Drug and Cosmetic...more

Hogan Lovells

FDA seeks comments on how to transition approved drug products to device status under Genus - Major regulatory changes for imaging...

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On August 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice announcing its implementation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s April 2021 decision in Genus Medical Technologies LLC v. U.S. Food...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

FDA Regulatory Approvals as the U.S. Emerges from the Immediate COVID-19 Emergency

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Emergency Use Authorizations will play a role as the pandemic eases, but a transition to ordinary course approvals is underway. As long as the COVID-related emergency is deemed to exist, fast-tracked FDA regulatory...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

FDA Approves First of Its Kind Artificial Pancreas for Children 2 to 6 Years Old

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Type I Diabetes is the most common type of diabetes in children, impacting about 1 in 400 children in the US according to the American Diabetes Association. Children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes require lifelong daily...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

FDA’s Safe Importation Action Plan May Give Florida’s Drug Import Program a Pathway to Approval

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At both the federal level and within Florida, there are the beginnings of the seeds of change regarding drug importation policies.  President Trump and Governor DeSantis have both been HUGE supporters of drug importation as a...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Product Liability 2018 Year in Review

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Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2018. The Product Liability practice group at Nutter recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Dueling Records: Are Statements in Your 510(k) Putting Your Patents at Risk?

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Laboratory developed test (LDT) providers, previously exempt from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, under a new FDA proposal, must now consider if their LDTs constitute moderate-risk (Class II) or high-risk...more

Morgan Lewis

Practical Implications from Amarin

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Amarin is an important US district court opinion affirming the importance of the Second Circuit’s Caronia decision and finding that pharmaceutical and medical device companies have a constitutionally protected right to...more

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