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Nevada Filing Deadlines Are Approaching: What Manufacturers Need to Know

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Drug and device manufacturers doing business in Nevada have upcoming filing deadlines in March, April, and June. By June 1, 2024, compliance officers must sign and submit a certification to the Nevada Board of Pharmacy to...more

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OIG Increases Expectations for Compliance Officers in Its New Compliance Program Guidance – What Compliance Officers at...

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On November 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued its anticipated General Compliance Program Guidance (“GCPG”) for the health care industry. The GCPG serves as a...more

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FDA Issues Revised Draft Guidance on “Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses Communications”

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On October 23, 2023, FDA published a draft guidance document to provide detailed recommendations to industry regarding the communication of unapproved uses of approved or cleared drugs and medical devices to health care...more

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FDA Publishes Draft AI/ML-Enabled Medical Device Guidance. Is it Everything We Hoped?

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First mentioned in a 2019 discussion paper entitled “Proposed Regulatory Framework for Modifications to Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD),” the idea of a defined set of...more

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FDA Releases Guidance on Submissions for AI/ML-Enabled Devices

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On April 3, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in the Federal Register an announcement of availability for the draft guidance, Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan...more

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What You Need to Know About Continuous Glucose Monitoring Compliance

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For diabetic patients and the doctors who treat them, blood sugar levels are crucially important. However, the traditional method of testing one’s blood sugar with a pin-prick is undesirable for many patients, which leads to...more

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Patient Stakeholder Group Zeroes in on Medical Device Industry

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In recent months, the Kaiser Health Network (part of the Kaiser Family Foundation) has issued three reports scrutinizing the orthopedic industry and its practices. Each report articulates the stakeholder group’s concerns over...more

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[Virtual Event] 2021 South America Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - February 4th, 8:55 am - 6:00 pm BRT

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Life Sciences Dealmaking Symposium: As the Dust Settles: Post-Election Update and Impact on the Life Sciences Industry

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How will the election affect life sciences in 2021 and beyond? What’s ahead for the regulatory and policy environment? In this session, our elite group of policy analysts reviewed the election results and the far-reaching...more

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FDA Issues Guidance on Conduct of Clinical Trials of Medical Products During COVID-19 Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter ways of life across the globe, clinical trials must be adapted for participant safety while maintaining accuracy in the midst of the ongoing crisis. In September 2020, the U.S. Food...more

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FDA and Pharmacy Weekly Digest - April 2020 #3

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Food - FDA Extended Comment Period for Rule on Food Standards – The comment period on the proposed rule was extended until July 20. The proposed rule, “Food Standards; General Principles and Food Standards Modernization,”...more

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FDA Update: Enforcement Policies for Gowns, Gloves, Sterilizers, Disinfectant Devices and Air Purifiers

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In response to growing medical product supply shortages and need for information, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued multiple enforcement policies to provide guidance to industry. Here, we focus on...more

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OSHA Guidance Allows Alternatives in Light of N95 Shortage Due to Coronavirus

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On April 3, 2020, OSHA issued enforcement guidance that temporarily permits the extended and re-use of respirators as well as other alternatives, and clarifies when respirators, including N95 masks, may continue to be used...more

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The Transport of Coronavirus by Exhaled Breath and Possible Protection with Homemade Face Coverings

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As recently as March 27, the WHO was stating on its website that there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the novel coronavirus was airborne except in a handful of medical cases, such as when intubating an infected...more

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Outlook of China’s Health Care Sector in Light of COVID-19

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China is cautiously recovering from the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak and is moving into a new period of investor-friendly policies aimed at restarting China’s economic engine....more

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CDC Provides Recommendations for Respirators When N95 Respirators Are Not Available in COVID-19 Crisis

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To combat shortages of N95 respirators, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued and continues to update its Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators. The CDC’s N95 Respirator Strategies provide...more

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FDA Issues Enforcement Policy for Ventilators and Other Respirators

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As part of its effort to address the shortage of medical equipment needed to address the COVID-19 pandemic, FDA has issued a new Enforcement Policy announcing flexibility in some of the regulatory requirements for...more

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FDA Loosens Requirements for Sterilizers, Disinfectant Devices, and Air Purifiers

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Over the past weekend, the FDA issued yet another Final Guidance to relax the rules governing medical devices. In this new Guidance, the FDA says it is expanding “the availability and capability of sterilizers, disinfectant...more

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How Should Institutions Conducting Research Respond to COVID-19?

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As healthcare providers and universities respond to the spread of COVID-19, legal counsel at these institutions should be prepared to assist their institution’s research enterprise in anticipating and reacting to any changes...more

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What COVID-19 Means for FDA-Regulated Industry

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U.S. and international health authorities continue to respond to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). While originally detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, as of the date of this alert the virus has now...more

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Drop in Warning Letters for Medical Devices Raises Interesting Questions About the Industry

In 2017, FDA issued only 44 Warning Letters to medical device establishments. Of those, 11 were related to pre-market issues, which include investigational device exemption violations or lack of approval or clearance. Only 33...more

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Guidebook: Cybersecurity in the Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices Industries

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As a life sciences or medical device company, it is mission critical to protect lab books, drug and clinical test data, product formulas and production processes that underlie your patents, trade secrets and know-how from...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Four Things Compliance Practitioner Should Know About the Eurasian Economic Union

Four Things Compliance Practitioner Should Know About the Eurasian Economic Union - An effective Compliance risk management at emerging markets for any business significantly depends on timeous observation of changes in...more

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Managing the Cybersecurity Risks of the Medical Internet of Things

The cybersecurity ramifications of the Internet of Things (IoT) are perhaps nowhere more crucial—potentially a matter of life and death, in fact—than in the realm of medical devices. Until recent times, a potential hack of...more

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