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Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New Legislation Strengthens Disclosure Requirements for Potential Organizational Conflicts of Interest

On December 27, President Biden signed the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act into law. The legislation, ushered through Congress by a bipartisan group of backers, strengthens existing...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry - July 21st - 22nd, Boston, MA

ACI is excited to welcome you back in-person to the 14th Advanced Forum on FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry, taking place on July 21–22, 2022 in Boston! Legal and compliance professionals from...more

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Who can’t see problems in medical device makers paying surgeons billions?

Billions of dollars have flown from medical device makers to specialists performing back, spine, knee, and hip surgeries, with unsavory cash and practices also accompanying that fiscal tide. Industry officials and...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Talc Lawsuit Update June 2021: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal in $2 Billion Jury Award Against J&J

With $2 billion on the line, the highest court in the nation has refused to hear an appeal that aimed to undo a jury award given to cancer patients and their families....more

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Questions aplenty about medical device-makers paying doctors $3.6 billion

Although Big Pharma has taken deserved heat for selling its drugs by slathering doctors with cheesy tchotchkes, lavish or even cheap meals, and pricey trips, as well as lucrative consulting and speaking opportunities, medical...more

Haug Partners LLP

Defendants Successfully Disqualify Bankrupt Wholesaler Rochester Drug Co-Operative From Representing Class of Purchasers in...

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On July 8, 2020, Judge Alison Burroughs granted-in-part Defendants Shire and Actavis’s motion to decertify a direct purchaser plaintiff class in an alleged reverse payment antitrust case pending in the Federal District Court...more

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Top experts, by failing to disclose conflicts of interest, shortchange taxpayers

Elite researchers — professors and staff with ties to 20 of the nation’s top universities and the respected National Institutes of Health — may be failing to be as candid as institutions and laws require about their potential...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Is Prescription Drug Pricing The Cure For Partisanship?

In a rare act of bipartisanship, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced on July 23rd a chairman’s mark, the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA)...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Employment Tips For The Pharmaceutical, Biotech, And Life Science Industries - Part 2

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Tip #2: Thorny Issues with Commissions Part 1: What Happens When a Salesperson Is Selling a Drug To Herself or Her Family Member? A key component of compensation for pharmaceutical salespeople is the sales commission, and...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

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OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, reached a deal this week with the state of Oklahoma in which they will pay “$270 million to avoid going to a state court trial over the company’s role in the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH v. GeneriCo, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2019)

This decision of the Federal Circuit in Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH v. GeneriCo, LLC involves disqualification due to conflict of interest of counsel representing Mylan Pharmaceuticals in three separate appeals. As set forth in the...more

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Can ‘sunshine’ of evidence-based facts dispel fog of diet and nutrition hokum?

Media coverage of diet and nutrition topics, for their abundance of hype and sheer bunk, may take the cake. Some recent, solid reports not only offer examples of the scope and scale of this public tomfoolery and its costs but...more

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What was she thinking? CDC chief quits when caught trading tobacco stock

Brenda Fitzgerald, a rich doctor who not only wouldn’t pull her hand out of her personal cookie jar of investments and instead plunged it even deeper during her conflicted time in public office, finally has quit the top job...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Latest State Law Addressing the Opioid Crisis: New Regulations Prohibit New Jersey Prescribers Accepting Payments from Drug...

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In a prior blog post from September 8, 2017, we wrote about the many ways in which states are addressing the opioid crisis through legislation. One of the states we discussed was New Jersey who at the time had proposed a new...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Opioid Crisis Initiating New State Gift Ban Laws

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The Maine legislature passed with broad bipartisan approval L.D. 911, An Act to Prohibit Certain Gifts to Health Care Practitioners. The legislation prohibits gifts to practitioners who are licensed to prescribe and...more

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Congress members buy, sell sector stocks even as they make health care law

The U.S. Congress, based on its members’ legally required financial disclosures, fares far better than most. Senators and representatives are worth a net $1 million on average. But is it seemly for so many of our crucial...more

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Trump insider-nominee to head FDA starts out with list of conflicts of interest

At a time when drug costs are skyrocketing and Americans are demanding relief, President Trump’s nominee to be the chief regulator of Big Pharma and medical device makers says he initially must sidestep a lot of oversight of...more

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Big Pharma enlists more useful allies: pay-for-hire academic economists

It’s a $50-million business with a roster of blue-chip consultants who would be an envied faculty at most any major university. But look closely at the activities of Precision Health Economics because this firm’s esteemed...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - December 2016

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This month Richard Zall, Chair of Proskauer's Health Care Department, explores developments likely to occur with respect to the Affordable Care Act as a result of the new administration. In our Rulings, Filings and...more

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Researchers question FDA cancer experts’ ‘revolving door’ with Big Pharma

The numbers are small but the implications significant. A pair of academic researchers has tossed a conflict-of-interest grenade in the laps of the leaders of the federal Food and Drug Administration. Is there too much of a...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Health Care: As Sunshine Act Deadlines Approach Physicians and Hospitals Should Prepare for Transparency in Their Financial...

On September 30, 2014, in accordance with the Federal Sunshine Act (the Sunshine Act), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will publically disclose payments and "other transfers of value" by pharmaceutical,...more

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Getting the Best Medical Care: a Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2013

In This Issue: - Is There a Problem? Let Us Count the Ways - A Growing Awareness - Getting Objective Information - Recent Health Care News You Should Know About - Excerpt from Navigating Through Medical...more

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