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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers.

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Big Win for HP&M Client: Court of Appeals Tells FDA to Regulate Barium Sulfate As a Device

FDA Law Blog

The Court decision limiting FDA’s discretion provides regulatory certainty for device manufacturers, as the claimed discretion, if recognized by the Court, would have meant that any medical device potentially could be classified and regulated as a drug. District Court, which sided with Genus in December 2019.

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Episode 309 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 23 – Anti-Blackness, Anti-Fatness, and Food Shaming

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Between the years 2019 and 2021, Harrison served as Associate Editor—and later as Managing Editor—of Wear Your Voice Magazine. Physical Fitness.” Harrison currently serves as Editor-at-Large at Scalawag Magazine, is a co-host of the podcast “Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back,” and one third of the video podcast “In The Middle.”

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. And for that reason, there was actually an enormous lawsuit, and the manufacturer was fined, now I think 20 years ago, in the millions and millions of dollars for off-label prescribing. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review.

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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

Tiny Physician

Even a basic understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics is enough to debunk the concepts in this pseudoscience. It is worth noting that Covaxin, our indigenously developed vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, is on the verge of getting approval in the pediatric age group as well (6). Arsenic Toxicity 8.

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Knock Knock. Who’s There? (or Quién es? or Qui est-ce? or Wer ist es?) Surprise, it’s FDA!

FDA Law Blog

Claud On May 6, 2025, FDA announced that it planned to conduct more surprise inspections at foreign manufacturing facilities that produce foods, essential medicines, and other medical products intended for U.S. Walsh & Esther Petrikovsky & John W.M. is safe, legitimate, and honestly made. is safe, legitimate, and honestly made.