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In This Issue: - Forecast for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Partly Cloudy - Document Preservation Notices and the Lists of Who Receive Them: Are They Discoverable? - FDA Warning Letters Through...more
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The case of the week on the Bloomberg bankruptcy video is the decision by Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane who concluded that American Airlines isn't obliged to pay several hundred million dollars in...more
A compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts has been linked to the outbreak of a rare form of fungal meningitis caused by contamination of steroid injections commonly used for back and neck pain...more
As we previously reported, the nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated injections produced by New England Compounding Center (“NECC”), a compounding pharmacy in Framingham, Massachusetts, prompted...more
The 188th Massachusetts Legislature began the 2013 – 2014 legislative session on January 2. This alert identifies the key public policy issues that will likely emerge in the current session and offers insight into their...more
The U.S. government may be resurrecting the "Park Doctrine" as a tool to prosecute the owners of pharmacies for federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) violations. In United States v. Park, 421 U.S. 658 (1975), the U.S....more
On December 19, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting, broadcast live on the Internet, to discuss the respective roles of the federal and state governments in regulating pharmacy compounding....more
Pharmaceutical litigation most frequently occurs when drug companies fail to adequately test medications prior to release or fail to properly inform consumers of the potential side effects. In these cases, the drugs are...more
On December 19, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and officials from all 50 states' boards of pharmacy met to discuss their views on state and federal roles in regulating compounding pharmacies. The meeting...more
With as many as 13,000 patients possibly exposed to fungal meningitis from tainted spinal steroid injections traced to a New England compounding pharmacy, the regulation of compounding pharmacies is once againheating up. The...more
Federal and state officials believe that a contaminated medication from a Massachusetts pharmacy is responsible for an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has killed at least twenty-four people and sickened more than three...more
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