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Better Health Care Newsletter - August 2023

A Social Media prescription from America’s top doctor - Imagine sending your teen-aged kid or grandkid out every day to a full-time job in the tech industry. The hours are flexible, and they say they like it...sort of....more

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Social media blamed for fueling opioid crisis for the young

The social media sites that young folks so adore also have turned into virtual illicit drug bazaars, helping to explain the exploding problems with the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl and why opioids and overdoses of...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.22.2020 | Top Story: OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma to Plead Guilty, Pay $8.3B for Role in Opioid Crisis

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The Justice Department on Wednesday announced an $8.3 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma as part of a deal in which the company will plead guilty to criminal charges “related to its marketing of the addictive painkiller”...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Bad For Your Health: Lawsuit Advertising Implications And Solutions

Shook, Hardy & Bacon Partner Cary Silverman has authored a report for the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform examining the effects of advertising soliciting plaintiffs for lawsuits targeting prescription drugs and...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Kim Kardashian Drug Endorsement Results in FDA Warning Letter

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued a Warning Letter this week to Duchesnay, Inc. related to celebrity Kim Kardashian’s social media posts on Instagram, Twitter and...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FDA Recalls Kim Kardashian’s Post

Last month, Kim Kardashian praised Diclegis, a drug for morning sickness, on her social media accounts. Since Kim doesn’t follow us on social media, we don’t always keep tabs on her. But when her posts raise regulatory...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

OMG: Kim Kardashian Prompts FDA Warning Letter

Kim Kardashian recently trumpeted the beneficial effects of Diclegis, a pill indicated for the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy for certain women, to her over 42 million Instagram followers. One such Kardashian...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Socially Aware - Volume 5, Issue 5 - August 2014

In This Issue: - Data for the Taking: Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Combat Web Scraping - Google Glass Into Europe: A Small Step or a Giant Leap? - Drugs and the Internet: FDA Distributes New...more

Snell & Wilmer

FDA Draft Guidance Aims to Clarify Appropriate Character-Space-Limited Social Media Use by Drug and Device Firms: Part One of Two

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As technology continues to evolve, so do the ways in which patients and healthcare providers obtain information pertaining to medical products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Thomas Abrams, Director of...more

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FDA Proposes Guidelines for Posting Medical-Product Information Online

A lot can be misconstrued in the silent world of the Internet. While online technology has changed the communications paradigm, it also has resulted in bad information, embarrassing typos, factual errors and malfeasance....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Coveting Characters: Navigating FDA's Draft Guidance on Social Media

Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two long-awaited draft guidances on social media: Internet/Social Media Platforms: Correcting Independent Third-Party Misinformation About Prescription Drugs and...more

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Making Use of Social Media: FDA Releases Two Draft Guidelines on the Use of Social Media Platforms by Drug and Device...

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released two long-awaited draft guidance documents for the drug and device industries revolving around the use of social media platforms by drug and device manufacturers —...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Drug and Device Information on Social Media

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On June 17, 2014, the FDA issued two draft guidance documents relating to the use of social media and the Internet to promote prescription drugs and medical devices. The FDA described how a company should use a character...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidances Regarding Social Media: Handling Misinformation and Character Space Limits

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On June 17, 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two draft guidance documents concerning the use of social media and internet platforms for advertising and promotion: Internet/Social Media Platforms:...more

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