On March 8, 2016, Amarin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Amarin”) and the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) reached a settlement agreement in a closely followed case involving Amarin’s First Amendment rights to...more
In an apparent first, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conceded that a pharmaceutical company may engage in truthful and nonmisleading speech promoting the off-label use of a prescription drug. This concession...more
On February 29, 2016, Minneapolis-based medical device company Vascular Solutions, Inc. (“VSI”) and its CEO Howard Root were acquitted by a jury of conspiracy and misbranding charges in a closely-followed trial in San...more