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King & Spalding

2022 Year in Review: FDA Drug and Device Advertising and Promotion Enforcement

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In 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a total of nine enforcement letters targeting advertising and promotion violations for prescription drugs and devices.  A summary of the noteworthy...more

Hogan Lovells

2020 OPDP Wrap-up: FDA monitoring drug manufacturers’ use of online communication platforms

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In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued four warning letters and two untitled letters to pharmaceutical companies for promotional materials that allegedly...more

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FDA cracks down on pharmaceutical firm for misbranding drug as COVID-19 treatment

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Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) posted two more warning letters for 2020, bringing the tally to five warning and untitled letters for the year. These...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Don’t Tune Out OPDP’s Recent Warning Letter For a Violative Radio Advertisement

On August 31, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent a Warning Letter to the sponsor of a drug for a violative direct-to-consumer (DTC) radio advertisement.1   The radio...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - July 2020

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of AGG outside the Food and Drug practice....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Second Circuit Vacates Conviction of Pharmaceutical Distributor on Advice-of-Counsel Defense

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Last week, in United States v. Scully, the Second Circuit vacated the conviction of a distributor of pharmaceutical products on misbranding charges due to evidentiary issues surrounding his advice-of-counsel defense at trial....more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

The Past, Present, and Future of Government Regulation of Off-Label Communications – Part 3

This is Part 3 in my series exploring the history of FDA’s regulation of off-label communications, which has become newly relevant in light of the recent events highlighted in Part 1. In this installment, I continue...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

The Past, Present, and Future of Government Regulation of Off-Label Communications – Part 2

In my last post, I introduced a series of posts that will explore FDA’s historical approach to off-label drug and device communications, how that position has evolved (or not) to the modern day, and predict where that policy...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine in the Wake of DeCoster

Executive Summary: The most important Park doctrine case in over forty years may be heading to the Supreme Court – but not if the federal government has its way. The Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine (“RCO doctrine”),...more

Jackson Walker

Another Successful First Amendment Challenge to the Prohibition of Off-Label Promotion for FDA-Approved Drugs: Part Two

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The Free Speech Clause notched another victory in the latest and, perhaps, final chapter of the lawsuit between the FDA and Amarin Pharma, Inc. concerning off-label marketing of an FDA-approved drug. On March 8, 2016, the FDA...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Amarin Pharma Settles First Amendment Claims Against FDA: Potential Implications

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Irish drug company Amarin Pharma, Inc. (Amarin) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed, on March 8, 2016, to settle claims that FDA regulations barring Amarin from making “truthful” and “non-misleading”...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Southern District of New York Finds Amarin Pharma, Inc.’s Off-Label Promotion Is Protected Speech; Company Cannot Be Prosecuted...

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Pharmaceutical industry and constitutional buffs have been closely watching Amarin Pharma Inc. v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The case presented the (not wholly novel) question whether the First Amendment protects...more

Perkins Coie

Pharma and Medical Device Industry Victory in Off-Label Marketing Decision

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that the FDA may not constitutionally bring a misbranding action based on truthful and non-misleading off-label promotion of an FDA-approved drug,...more

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Another Successful First Amendment Challenge to the Prohibition of Off-Label Promotion for FDA-Approved Drugs

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The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment prevailed in the latest challenge to the FDA's prohibition against marketing FDA-approved drugs for off-label (or non-FDA-approved) uses. Applying the Second Circuit’s...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

First Amendment Protects Truthful Off-Label Speech by Drug Manufacturers

Pharmaceutical manufacturers have likely taken note of Amarin Pharma Inc.’s recent success in a pre-enforcement legal challenge against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency). On August 7, 2015, Amarin obtained...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA Cites Drug Company for Kim Kardashian Endorsement

This week might have been the first time that an FDA regulatory issue hit the headlines on TMZ and other “celebrity watcher” websites. In an August 7 Warning Letter sent to the drug company Duchesnay, Inc., FDA complains...more

Morgan Lewis

Practical Implications from Amarin

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Amarin is an important US district court opinion affirming the importance of the Second Circuit’s Caronia decision and finding that pharmaceutical and medical device companies have a constitutionally protected right to...more

Morgan Lewis

FDA Ups the Ante on Inspections with New Administrative Detention Authority

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New authority allows FDA inspectors to quickly detain products during inspections if they believe the products are misbranded or adulterated....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

First Amendment And Off-Label Promotion – Prosecute What I Do, Not What I Say

On December 3, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the conviction of Alfred Caronia (“Caronia”), who had been tried and convicted of participating in an unlawful conspiracy to introduce a...more

Polsinelli

FDA Issues First Compounding Pharmacy Warning Letter Under DQSA/503B

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On January 17, FDA issued its opening sally in the new compounding pharmacy enforcement regime by issuing a Warning Letter to Avella of Deer Valley in Phoenix, AZ. The letter is based on a nearly year-old inspection (February...more

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Health Reform + Related Health Policy News - January 2014, Issue 1

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In This Issue: - Top News ..Congress Approves Budget Deal with Short-Term ‘Doc Fix' ..CMS “Two-Midnight” Rule delayed until March 31, 2014 ..Individuals with Canceled Insurance Policies May Apply for...more

Troutman Pepper

Misbranded Drugs: A Danger To Physicians And Patients

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Mail-order businesses, including pharmacies, bombard doctors by fax, phone, and Internet offering an assortment of name-brand medications and treatments at bargain prices. These new options tempt physicians with the promise...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

False Press Release Leads To Exclusion From Federal Programs

Dr. Harkonen was the CEO of InterMune, Inc, a pharmaceutical company that developed, marketed and sold drugs for lung and liver diseases, including Actimmune. In 2002, the FDA had approved Actimmune to treat only two...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA Will Not Appeal Second Circuit Decision in U.S. v. Caronia

After the Second Circuit’s split decision in U.S. v. Caronia, holding that truthful off-label marketing is protected under the First Amendment and thus cannot be prosecuted under the misbranding provisions of the Food Drug...more

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