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U.S. effort to fight HIV worldwide has brought lifesaving treatment to millions

Medical Xpress

Since it began in 2004, a global effort led by the United States to combat HIV has dramatically increased the number of people it helps, a new government report shows.

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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

Gonzalez There has been increased enforcement against medical device companies that engage in the pervasive practice of paying third party sales agents based on their volume of sales. In that decision, a medical laboratory paid Marchetti percentage-based compensation for successful referrals of Medicare patients to the laboratory.

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FDA’s Issues Draft Guidance on Accelerated Approval: A Substantial Evidentiary and Procedural Overhaul to this High-Profile Pathway

FDA Law Blog

FDAs interpretation of several threshold criteria for eligibility (serious condition, available therapy, unmet medical need) will continue to rely upon the 2014 Guidance. Moreover, it was also interesting to see how FDA discussed the concept of unmet medical need in the limited fashion that it did in this new guidance.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

It led to revocation of the elder Geier’s medical license and disciplinary action for David Geier for practicing medicine without a license. The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. They also created a now-rejected treatment involving a hormone-blocking drug.