Legally Qualified: Can Employers Require Vaccines?
Can Employers Require COVID-19 Vaccinations?
On August 22, Moderna announced that FDA approved its supplemental Biologics License Application (“sBLA”) for a new formula of their COVID-19 vaccine, SPIKEVAX®, for individuals 12 years old and above. Emergency Use...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is all about hard science, and correlation of variables is not evidence of causation. To make a regulatory decision, FDA has long held that line, requiring evidence of actual occurrences...more
A little over two years ago, the FDA authorized Paxlovid for emergency use for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg) who are at high risk for progression to severe...more
Executive Summary - On October 19, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance document titled Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19: Guidance for Industry, providing...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its new guidance on the Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19 (the “Guidance”). FDA provided a preview of a new COVID-19 vaccines guidance...more
DOJ’s First Criminal Securities Fraud Prosecution Related to COVID-19 Results in Eight-Year Sentence - Mark Schena, the former president of Arrayit Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company, was...more
After years of enforcement discretion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a proposed rule on October 3, 2023 under which the agency articulated its intent to increase regulatory oversight of laboratory...more
On October 3rd, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its widely anticipated proposed rule on the regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Last year, Congress failed to pass the Verifying Accurate,...more
On September 29, 2023, the Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) published the long-awaited proposed rule on laboratory developed tests (“LDT Proposed Rule”). The proposed rule is open for public comment through...more
The Biden administration announced on January 30, 2023 that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) would officially end on May 11, 2023. The PHE declaration, which first was issued by the Secretary of the US Department of...more
With less than two weeks left until the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), which is set to expire on May 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is preparing to transition certain...more
Since its enactment in 2017, Public Law No. 115-92 has significantly boosted the availability of medical products that protect and treat military personnel. Designed to overcome the unique challenges posed by military medical...more
In early 2023, the Biden administration announced and set into motion its plans to wind down a number of pandemic-related programs and allow the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration, which has been in effect...more
The US Food and Drug Administration has finalized the framework for transitioning medical devices previously granted emergency use authorization or subject to particular enforcement policies to obtaining permanent marketing...more
On March 27, 2023, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released two final guidance documents to assist with transitioning medical devices: (i) that were subject to certain enforcement policies issued during the COVID-19...more
The FDA recently announced release of final transition guidance documents for medical diagnostic devices targeting COVID-19. The transition guidance documents are intended to guide COVID-19 diagnostic device manufactures as...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced transition plans for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)-authorized medical devices and devices marketed pursuant to COVID-19-related guidance documents. The Transition...more
This week, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued two much anticipated guidances, each outlining how COVID-19 devices will be treated after the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration or...more
On March 10, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Notice summarizing which of the agency’s COVID-19-related guidance documents will be rescinded and which will be revised to temporarily remain in effect,...more
On March 24, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized two transition plan guidance documents for medical devices that either 1) were issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs), or 2) received enforcement...more
In the wake of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) February announcement that they will be discontinuing the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration on May 11, 2023, the United States Food and Drug...more
The Biden administration announced on January 30, 2023, that it plans to terminate the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration (the “PHE declaration”) on May 11, 2023. COVID-19 EUA medical products and policies- As FDA...more
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued two new versions of guidance documents for COVID-19 tests on January 12, 2023: Policy for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Tests (the “COVID-19 Test Guidance”) and Policy for...more
As we take a breather during the holiday whirlwind, we wanted to flag for readers a recent development in advertising and promotion regulation that FDA quietly released nearly a month ago. In a Memorandum issued on October 27...more
On October 17, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) released the list of guidance documents proposed for publication in fiscal year 2023. While it is unclear if...more