October 2014

California’s Proposition 46 is an initiative that combines a number of controversial policies into one ballot. In broad terms, the…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services today made a number of announcements related to their Open Payments…

The Sunshine database was released one month ago, and it has been interesting to see the range of media coverage that has…

Novartis must continue to litigate over its speaker programs, District Court Judge Paul G. Gardephe ruled earlier this…

Last month we wrote about a bipartisan effort in Congress to exempt medical textbooks and journals, as well as indirect…

Getting a medical device to market is not easy. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval process alone can take…

An FDA inspection consists of a “careful, critical, official examination of a facility to determine its compliance with…

  Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an opioid pain relief drug called Zohydro. Zohydro is an…

Thomas Sullivan Over the years we have discussed the impact of drug shortages on healthcare in the United States. With…

In February, the FDA released a Request for Proposal asking firms to help the agency monitor social media activity for…