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Better Health Care Newsletter - May 2025

Great thinkers have sought for centuries to convey a crucial truth about humanity’s interconnection. As the poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the...more

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Clinical Trial Protocol Deviations: A New FDA Draft Guidance to Ring in the New Year

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As the curtain closed on 2024, FDA issued a new draft guidance to assist clinical trial sponsors, investigators, and institutional review boards (“IRBs”) with defining, identifying, and reporting protocol deviations in...more

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2024 Life Sciences & Health Care Horizons

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While economic factors, including the high cost of capital, continue to keep our clients up at night, we also see signs of optimism in 2024. Against this fiscal backdrop, significant recent regulatory changes and those on the...more

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JPM2024: Impact of China’s HGR Rules on clinical trials and scientific studies involving China sites

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Life sciences companies engaged in early development programs face a number of strategic considerations, such as where and how to administer the early stage scientific studies and each phase of clinical trials that are needed...more

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ArentFox Schiff Issues the First Global Definitive Legal Guide for Industries Navigating AI

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Artificial intelligence promises to transform the way we live and work and its impact will undoubtedly stretch to every business sector across the globe. This next generation of technology brings exciting possibilities and...more

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Legal Implications of AI in the Life Sciences Industry

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the life sciences industry, with significant advancements in various areas. These innovations bring new legal challenges related to intellectual property, data protection,...more

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FDA Issues Draft Recommendations for Implementing Decentralized Clinical Trials

On May 2, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took additional steps to support the use of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) by releasing a new draft guidance titled “Decentralized Clinical Trials for Drugs,...more

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MarkIt to Market® - June 2020: USPTO COVID-19 Prioritized Trademark Examination Program

As of June 16, 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has implemented a program to prioritize the examination of trademark applications that cover goods and services that help prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure COVID-19....more

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For COVID-19 Competitor Collaborations, DOJ Antitrust Division’s “Business Review Letter” Offers Easy and Likely Effective...

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On April 4, 2020, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice issued its first Business Review Letter under the DOJ-FTC joint expedited COVID-19 competitor collaboration review procedures, blessing several medical...more

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FDA reviews go faster — but with less proof drugs are safer or more effective

For anyone concerned with the quality and safety of prescription medications, this may be an especially displeasing commentary from a pharmaceutical expert about drugs raced to approval now: “Some of them are really great,”...more

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FDA Outlines Considerations for the Development and Labeling of Companion Diagnostics for Use with a Specific Group or Class of...

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, issued a draft guidance (the guidance) outlining considerations for the development and labeling of in vitro companion diagnostics to support indicated uses for...more

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To certify or not to certify? FDA has answered the question

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On June 7, 2017, FDA issued a revised guidance document, Form FDA 3674 – Certifications To Accompany Drug, Biological Product, and Device Applications/Submissions, to clarify when sponsors  should submit Form FDA 3674...more

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Trump's Proposed 2018 Budget Will Double FDA User Fees

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During his speech last month to a joint session of Congress, President Trump called out the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its “slow and burdensome approval process.” Those comments came on the heels of Trump’s...more

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Obama Signs 21st Century Cures Act, Adding $6.3 Billion For Medical Research

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The Cures Act aims to increase the speed by which new drugs are brought to market by streamlining clinical trials, allowing the use of patient data in the regulatory review process, and modernizing U.S. Food and Drug...more

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The Passage of the 21st Century Cures Act by Congress will produce Sweeping Changes to the Biotech, Medical Device,...

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The December 8, 2016 passage of the 21st Century Cures Act by Congress is expected to lead to sweeping changes to the biotech, medical device and health industries and streamline the regulatory system for approval of both...more

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The 21st Century Cures Act: FDA Reforms Aim to Spur Innovation in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Health Research Sectors

On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act (Act), one of the most important pieces of health care and life sciences legislation in several decades. The Act is intended to spur the rapid...more

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Arnall Golden Gregory Series Explains Provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act

On July 10, 2015, the House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act by a vote of 344-77. The bill is intended to promote drug and device development, support research and expedite patients’ access to new...more

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House Passes 21st Century Cures Act

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On July 10, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation intended to speed the approval of drugs and medical devices and increase funding for medical research. The central aim of H.R. 6, the “21st...more

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