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Analysis: Seeking Balance in the Hyperactive Mental Health Tech Market

HIT Consultant

Notable transactions in the consumer and member tech category include: Pear Therapeutics , software-based medicine provider, made its mark in 2017 as its tool became the first digital therapeutic approved by the FDA with claims to improve clinical outcomes.

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Mifepristone Manufacturer Wins First Round in West Virginia

Drug & Device Law

The core premise of Bexis’ article is very simple: Once the FDA has said “yes” and approved a particular drug for a particular indication (“intended use”) for sale in the United States, federal preemption precludes any state from saying say “no” and trying to ban that same FDA-approved drug. T]he growing market for mifepristone. . .

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NPP, DCC, And FDA-Regulated Medical Products

Drug & Device Law

We are not looking do either of those, but we will weigh in on what NPP means for non-product liability cases involving FDA-regulated medical products. A hundred years later, we detailed three rounds of litigation over Massachusetts’ serial efforts to ban, or at least substantially limit, the use of FDA-approved pain medications.

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Dobbs Would Likely Have Significant Impacts On Drug And Device Companies

Drug & Device Law

2012), addressed a challenge to the application of Idaho’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to criminalize the use of an FDA-approved abortifacient medication obtained through an internet prescription and mailed to the plaintiff from out of state. 124 (2007), which would also be knocked out by Dobbs if it sticks. 472 (2013).

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

For qualified IMGs, it issues a certification, which IMGs can then use to apply to residency and other graduate medical education programs and to apply for state medical licenses. Such power rests solely with the FDA.” The unfortunate truth is that ECFMG was also a victim of this fake doctor’s fraud. 471 (11th Cir. 2d 775, 799 & n.114

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TwIqbal And Punitive Damages

Drug & Device Law

544 (2007), and Ashcroft v. These allegations lack any contention or inference that [defendant] withheld or misrepresented information to the FDA. . ., It does not give him license to evade the less rigid ? It does not, however, give a plaintiff “license to evade the less rigid ? Twombly , 550 U.S. Iqbal , 556 U.S.

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Comment K, Presumptions, and Medical Device Design Defects Under Texas Law

Drug & Device Law

2007 WL 4042757, at *3 (N.D. 15, 2007); McNeil v. Texas, unlike most states, enforces a strong statutory presumption that prescription medical product warnings complying with FDA requirements imposed by “pre-market approval or licensing of the product” are adequate as a matter of law. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. ,

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