FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued antikickback cases in the healthcare industry. See 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(b). The Alert described several factors that could potentially violate the antikickback statute.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The last time we had you on the podcast, Bill, you talked about your cancer diagnosis and a personal experience with MAID, which you also, we’ll have a link to your blog post too about this as well. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Like in pandemic, I wrote a few articles early on and then when I started working for the city and state, I just stopped and partly was the horrible, horrible, horrible things we were seeing and that the government was doing to older people. And part of it was just not having time because I was doing my UCSF job and that job.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” ” Eric: What was it called again, Wachter’s World? But instead of all the hope and promise, it led, immediately, to frustration on the parts of doctors.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report finding that, for the years 2016-2018, the pharmaceutical industry spent on average for a sample of 553 drug products approximately $6 billion annually on DTC advertisements, with a significant portion of this spending allocated to television commercials. In 2021, the U.S.

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