Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
For more than a decade, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made diversity in clinical trials a focus, including by issuing guidance, convening public-private workshops, and completing data analyses in an effort to...more
Although Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination hearings to be the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on a variety of areas, his testimony and questions from U.S. senators focused on a few...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Office of Human Research protections (OHRP) released draft guidance titled, “Considerations for Including Tissue Biopsies in Clinical Trials.” Although non-binding, the...more
On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and the Office for Human Research Protections (“OHRP”) issued a joint draft guidance on including tissue biopsies in clinical trials that evaluate...more
As the curtain closed on 2024, FDA issued a new draft guidance to assist clinical trial sponsors, investigators, and institutional review boards (“IRBs”) with defining, identifying, and reporting protocol deviations in...more
As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape....more
On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance addressing use of diversity action plans (Plans) in the conduct of clinical research entitled “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment...more
On March 1, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a preliminary guidance document named Enhancing...more
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a draft guidance, “Key Information and Facilitating Understanding in Informed Consent”, with notable implications for clinical trial sponsors,...more
On March 1, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance document entitled Key Information and...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration other agencies, recently published draft guidance (Guidance) on effectively presenting key information regarding informed consent in FDA-regulated clinical...more
Key Takeaways: The draft guidance represents the first-ever specific expectation by FDA that sponsors develop a diversity plan for trials. FDA’s recommendations come as part of increasing interest in ensuring clinical...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more