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New EU Responsibility and Liability Landscape for Smart Medical Devices in a Global Context

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is already indispensable in the healthcare and life sciences sector. Intelligent medical devices promise nothing less than a revolution in the art of healing. With its legislative projects on AI...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Episode 36: Let’s Talk Compliance: The Risks and Pitfalls of Health Care Supply Chain Compliance

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In this episode, Monica Chmielewski, vice chair of Foley’s Health Care Practice Group and Shannon Sumner, Chief Compliance Officer and Nashville’s Office Managing Principal of PYA explore how supply chain compliance is...more

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The Importance of a Clinical Trial Strategy

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Developing a medical product, such as a medical device, comes with important milestones that can cause a project to sink or swim. One major milestone is amassing the clinical data needed to support pre-market submissions....more

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Ep. 63 – Speaking Fees and Safe Harbors: Lessons from a $202M AKS Settlement

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In April, a pharmaceutical manufacturer agreed to pay a $202 million settlement to resolve allegations of Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) violations. At the heart of the case were speaker programs, where physicians and...more

J.S. Held

Beyond Safety & Effectiveness: Business Reasons to Prioritize Human Factors in Medical Device Design

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To err is human. We have short attention spans and get distracted easily. We have unreliable memories and forget. We have a limited ability to process information, and we overgeneralize rules-of-thumb to the wrong situations....more

Alston & Bird

Addressing Data Integrity Challenges in Medical Device Submissions

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The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent rejection of all study data from Mid-Link Testing highlights the importance of using reliable, valid data for medical device premarket submissions. Our FDA/Food, Drug & Device...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FDA Contradicts Benzene Class Actions, Highlighting Risks of Third-Party Lab Testing

In March 2024, Valisure, an independent quality advocate, filed a citizen petition claiming to have detected elevated levels of benzene in benzoyl peroxide acne treatment products. Valisure’s petition included testing results...more

Butler Snow LLP

Turnabout is Fair Play – “Junk Science” Litigation Aftermath: Requisite Retractions and Dubious Do-Overs

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Do plaintiffs’ experts get to put junk science before juries more often than their opinions are excluded? The answer is a resounding “probably.” Even in light of the December 2023 amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence and its...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Three Questions with Sedgwick’s Jeremy Schutz

In this edition of Three Questions, health care & life sciences partner Nate Brown spoke with Jeremy Schutz, director of business development, recall & remediation at Sedgwick, to explore key strategies that pharmaceutical...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New FDA Guidance on AI and Medical Products

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n March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a paper titled “Artificial Intelligence and Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together.” This paper describes the FDA’s strategy for...more

Jones Day

FDA's Final Device Manufacturing Rule—Not Quite Harmonious With Status Quo

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Amending prior requirements, medical device manufacturers and importers have two years to comply with FDA's Quality Management System Regulation final rule, a similar approach to prior good manufacturing practices but with...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Unpacking Averages: Device Manufacturers Should Use the Newly Released Demographic Data in MDRs to Ensure Their Devices Are Not...

As you may know, we have been submitting FOIA requests asking FDA to share data from its various programs.  In October, FDA granted our April FOIA request in which we asked the agency to add back demographic data fields that...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

FDA Issues Implementation Guidance on Cybersecurity Requirements for Medical Device Premarket Submissions

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued guidance concerning cybersecurity requirements for certain medical device premarket submissions (the Guidance). The Guidance outlines the implementation of...more

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Transatlantic Legal-Regulatory Update: Live from the Heart of Silicon Valley

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US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more

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FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity

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The FDA has been continuing to work on protecting medical devices from the threats of cybersecurity. In April of this year, the Agency released the latest draft guidance addressing cybersecurity in the medical device...more

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Medical Device Cybersecurity Survey Report Released

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Cybellum released a medical device survey report on April 20, 2022 entitled “Medical Device Cybersecurity: Trends and Predictions.” The company’s website states that their “mission is to enable manufacturers and their...more

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