Policy & Medicine - Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Issues

Consumer watchdog group Public Citizen is criticizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to expand the approved use…

New legislation in New York would require healthcare professionals who prescribe pain medication to complete three hours…

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced yesterday an…

Keeping track of the Food and Drug Administration’s enforcement of advertising and promotion of drugs, devices, and biologics is a…

Over 100 physician organizations have written to Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) expressing…

Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees on Monday sent a letter to the Government…

In April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released over thirty Medicare Part D payment spreadsheets,…

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a fraud alert entitled…

The June 2015 issue of Life Science Compliance Update, available with a subscription here, offers a compliance update for medical…

Periodically since 2007, the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) has released a “Scorecard,” ranking medical schools on…