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Depo-Provera Birth Control Shots and the Risk of Meningioma Brain Tumors

Depo-Provera, a birth control injection containing the hormone medroxyprogesterone acetate, has been widely used for decades as a convenient contraceptive option. For many women, the Depo shot offered an alternative to daily...more

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Analyzing the Impact of Recent Studies Linking Depo-Provera to Increased Meningioma Risk

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Recent scientific research has uncovered a significant association between the long-term use of Depo-Provera, a widely used injectable contraceptive, and the development of meningiomas, tumors affecting the membranes...more

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Meningioma After Depo Shot? You May Be Entitled to Compensation

Recent scientific research has revealed that women who used the Depo-Provera birth control shot may be five times more likely to develop a form of brain tumors known as meningioma....more

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Can Birth Control Injections Cause a Meningioma? The Science Behind the Lawsuits

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Depo-Provera has been used by millions of women as a convenient and long-lasting contraceptive option. However, recent concerns have emerged about a possible link between the long-term use of these injections and the...more

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Government of Canada announces first pharmacare agreements

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Update: The Government of Canada announced an agreement with the Yukon ($9.5 million over four years). The agreement text is available in the updated National pharmacare bilateral agreements resource....more

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Health Care Week in Review | Senate Holds Hearings for NIH and FDA Nominees; CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA Advise Against Forms of...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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The Robins Kaplan Justice Report - January 2025

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For decades, Depo-Provera has been presented as a game-changing contraceptive—a quick injection every three months that promised simplicity and effectiveness. For millions of women worldwide, it seemed like the perfect...more

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Silent Dangers: The Link Between Depo-Provera, Brain Tumors, and Health Inequities

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For decades, Depo-Provera has been presented as a game-changing contraceptive—a quick injection every three months that promised simplicity and effectiveness. For millions of women worldwide, it seemed like the perfect...more

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M+ Check-Up: September 6, 2024

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Congress Returns. The House and Senate will be back in session on September 9, 2024, with a joint focus on completing consideration of a continuing resolution (CR) to maintain government funding beyond the end of fiscal year...more

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Another Leak Confirmed and Other Important Decisions and Divisions Issued, but Not Loper or Trump - SCOTUS Today

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The Supreme Court’s day started with the specter of yet another leak of a reproductive rights decision having occurred....more

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Client Alert: Access to Mifepristone Still Standing for Now, but Questions Remain

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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Justice Kavanaugh wrote for a unanimous Court dismissing the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine from the case for lack of...more

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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to FDA Regulation of Abortion Medication

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In a unanimous decision today, the Supreme Court rejected efforts to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, overturning an earlier decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court ruled that the...more

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State Attorneys General Weigh in Amidst Supreme Court Case That Could Restrict Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone

Attorneys general across the country have joined in litigation related to mifepristone, a drug used for medication abortions. A case currently before the Supreme Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, could affect...more

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Regs During an Election Year: What’s on the Menu?

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Last week, McDermott+Consulting launched an election 2024 resource page, where you can find a 2024 health policy outlook and other insights into the November election. While regulations aren’t necessarily top-of-mind when...more

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First At-Home Artificial Insemination Kit Receives FDA Clearance

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Mosie Baby, a Texas-based fertility care company, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its over-the-counter intravaginal insemination kit.  The kit was developed for those who are unable to...more

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CooperCompanies acquires a selection of Cook Medical’s reproductive health products

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CooperCompanies announced on November 1, 2023, the purchase of Cook Medical’s doppler monitoring, gynecology surgery, and obstetrics products for $300 million. CooperCompanies is a global medical device company that is...more

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Thousands of Women Report Paragard Copper IUDs Broken During Removal, FDA Data Shows

Federal health officials have received thousands of reports of women whose Paragard copper IUDs broke when they were being removed. Hundreds of women with broken Paragard IUDs have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of...more

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Fifth Circuit Court Keeps Abortion Medication Legal, But With Restrictions

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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld parts of a Texas District Court ruling by restricting the use of Mifepristone, while allowing Mifepristone to remain on the market. This is the latest ruling in an...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules to Reinstate Abortion Pill Restrictions

Nearly three months after hearing oral arguments, a divided Fifth Circuit panel issued its decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, upholding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) underlying approval of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Daily Oral Contraceptive

On July 13, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved the first daily contraceptive for use without a prescription. Opill® (norgestrel) tablet, .075 mg has been approved to prevent pregnancy in individuals of...more

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First Nonprescription Birth Control Pill Approved for Marketing by FDA: A Milestone for Reproductive Health

As we previously reported, Perrigo Company’s subsidiary HRA Pharma submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the summer of 2022 to switch an existing prescription-only progestin birth control pill...more

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Reproductive Health: Over the Counter Birth Control Pill Supported by FDA Advisory Committees

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At the May 9-10, 2023, Joint Meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisers voted that the...more

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Supreme Court Issues Stay in Mifepristone Case, Preserving Status Quo for Now

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On April 21, 2023, the Supreme Court granted a stay in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case concerning the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of and access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. The...more

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Withdrawal of Drug Approval Highlights Risk of Accelerated Approval Pathway

On April 5, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced its decision to withdraw the approval of Makena® hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection (“Makena”) – a drug that was approved in 2011 to reduce the...more

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The Legal Battle Over Mifepristone

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During the past several turbulent weeks for the U.S. health care system, rulings in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA have called into question the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA’s”) scientific...more

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