In recent months, several changes to healthcare rules regulations focusing on reproductive health care have been introduced. These include (1) privacy protections for reproductive health data under HIPAA, (2) expanding access...more
It has been a year since the FDA announced their goals for the future of animal and veterinary products in the Animal and Veterinary Innovation Agenda (available here: Animal and Veterinary Innovation Agenda). The Agenda is...more
At the start of 2022, we reflected on what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had accomplished during the preceding 12 months and the challenges that could be ahead for the agency during the impending year, especially...more
THIS WEEK’S DOSE - Uncharted Territory in the House: The House voted to remove Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, then recessed until at least October 11, when the House is slated to reconvene to elect a new...more
On May 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a proposed rule to amend its regulations regarding prescription drug product labeling regulations. Under the new rule, each time a prescription drug products is...more
The title of CMS’s May 26 proposed rule, “Misclassification of Drugs, Program Administration and Program Integrity Updates Under the MDRP,” buries the lede. Amid twenty Medicaid Drug Rebate Program-related proposals—some...more
There were so many interesting and significant developments related to the various missions of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the last week or so of September 2022 that we decided to create a summary...more
The expansion of over-the-counter (“OTC”) drug options has been a long time coming. Advocates in various fora, including within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”), have focused on the potential for...more
Unintended downstream consequences are likely to abound in the wake of the June 24, 2022 Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade, as Mintz attorneys have addressed in other contexts here and here Those looking ahead have...more
On June 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the long-awaited proposed rule “Nonprescription Drug Product with an Additional Condition for Nonprescription Use” (ACNU), which would could expand the...more
On April 18, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a Federal Register notice announcing that it is extending the comment period for its February 26, 2019, proposed rule that would put into effect a final...more