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The Wait is Over. Or Is It? DEA’s Proposed Rules Around Telemedicine Prescribing: Initial Impressions and Key Takeaways

Health Law Advisor

Background on the Ryan Haight Act The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (the “Ryan Haight Act”) made certain amendments to the CSA which established controls on the remote prescribing of controlled substances. 18 U.S.C. § Are the proposed record-keeping obligations reasonable and/or sufficient? 1301.28.

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States and Feds Signal Big Changes to Telehealth Prescribing

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1] Originally enacted in 2010, the Online Prescribing Act has allowed health care providers to register with the State to prescribe and dispense certain FDA-approved drugs via online pharmacies and utilization of telehealth visits. Utah Code § 58-83-306.

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Malarkey ? The Ten Worst Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

Drug & Device Law

FDA , 78 F.4th 2023), was the Fifth Circuit’s blatantly politicized attack on the FDA’s regulation of abortion-related drugs. The questionable allegations of that single complaint thus effectively trumped many years of the FDA’s science-based decision-making. The FDA, for one, advised patients to keep using these drugs.

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CPAP MDL Overinflates Plaintiffs’ Claims

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CPAP II shrugs off plaintiffs’ repeated allegations that defendants “failed to apprise the FDA” of this or that, with the excuse that plaintiffs don’t really “rely” on them. 2008) (applying the rule; rejecting distinction that “this is a ‘no warning’ case as opposed to an inadequate warning case”), aff’d , 321 F. Sinclair v.

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Guest Post – Second Circuit Rejects Manufacturer’s Plan to Share Cost of Expensive Drug with Medicare Part D Beneficiaries

Drug & Device Law

The drug at issue was an FDA-recognized breakthrough drug that treats a relatively rare, but invariably fatal, condition – transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (“ATTR-CM”). 3 (2008), the court explained that “the word ‘includes,’ when used in a statute, ‘is usually a term of enlargement, and not of limitation.’” Pfizer, Inc. ,

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Pretty Potent Mix In A Prescription Painkiller Preemption Decision

Drug & Device Law

2015), finally gave appellate recognition to the preemption of design defect claims for FDA-approved branded prescription drugs. FDA approved the drug with its particular formulation and the manufacturer could not have changed the formulation on its own. 440 (2008), in the face of a contrary ruling from the Sixth Circuit in Garcia v.

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Thinking About the FDA’s Alternative Summary Reporting Program

Drug & Device Law

He came across several preemption decisions involving defendants who employed the FDA’s “alternative summary reporting” (“ASR”) system that the agency operated for about 20 years, “from 1997 through June 2019.” without adversely affecting FDA’s ability to monitor and react to such events. 18, 2022) ( available here ).

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