My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 4, 2022

Pfizer manufactures tafamidis, a breakthrough treatment for a rare, progressive heart condition known as transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. That court granted summary judgment to the government on the APA claim and rejected Pfizer’s narrower reading of the AKS, which would require an element of “corrupt” intent to impose AKS liability.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

District Court for the District of Columbia (“DDC”) against FDA alleging that the Agency’s structure of NDA review is unconstitutional (by our count the 31st Vanda litigation against FDA or another government entity in the last five years, including appeals). Or consider Vanda’s lawsuit filed in the U.S. VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2022

In October 2014, FDA held a public workshop titled “Additive Manufacturing of Medical Devices: An Interactive Discussion on the Technical Considerations of 3D Printing.” This discussion paper is not the first time that FDA has grappled with the tricky regulatory questions presented by 3D printing. products intended for medical purposes).

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MAY 11, 2022

They may have samples in stock, connections to other local organizations, or ideas of other places to call, such as your local WIC clinic. If you have any concerns about your baby’s nutrition, please talk with your pediatrician. What if baby formula is out of stock everywhere I look? Check social media groups. This should never be done.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 340B program, authorized under Section 340B of the Public Health Services Act and administered by HRSA, imposes a ceiling price on pharmaceutical manufacturer sales to “covered entities,” which are certain health clinics that receive federal funding and certain types of safety net hospitals to provide them drugs at lower prices.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. Interpretation of Statutory Criteria Under the Final Guidance.

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FDA Law

MARCH 1, 2023

FDA published two Federal Register Notices in October 2020 to recruit domestic drug product manufacturers of finished dosage forms and foreign manufacturers of active pharmaceutical ingredients to participate in the QMM Pilot Programs. FDA describes the QMM as “above-the-bar behaviors” that exceed good manufacturing practices (GMPs).

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Only a year later, in 1977, FDA promulgated regulations governing 510(k) reviews (21 C.F.R. Yet, all this time, this process lacked implementing regulations governing the process and the criteria for approval. Part 807, Subpart E). In 1986, FDA followed up with the PMA regulations (21 C.F.R. The regulatory uncertainty has ill?befitted

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FDA Law

JUNE 16, 2023

Kirschenbaum — On May 24, Minnesota enacted the Commerce and Consumer Protection Omnibus Bill, Senate File 2744 ( SF 2744 ), which significantly expands the state’s existing drug pricing activities with serious implications for all drug manufacturers, and particularly generic drug manufacturers. We address each below. Best price?

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is another effort from CDRH’s Digital Health Center of Excellence to provide structure and guidance to participants across the connected device playing field, including both delivery organizations as well as manufacturers. Digital providers and manufacturers not only have the concerns of the FDA to consider, but those of the FTC as well.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As the new Federal Register notice explains, FDA issued the 2016 Guidance in question and answer format to respond to the most frequently asked questions about charging for investigational drugs provided under an IND for either clinical trials or expanded access for treatment use under 21 CFR section 312.8. Changes from the 2016 Guidance.

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FDA Law

MARCH 6, 2025

We were struck by the level of detail expected by FDA for processes related to data management, especially for data collected and used early in development to train an initial AI model, which may occur before a manufacturer decides to move forward with device development under design controls. data acquisition device).

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rapid tests for COVID-19 are fast, inexpensive to manufacture, and a relatively easy method to detect the presence of an active SARS?CoV?2 This capacity limitation does not apply to OTC lateral flow antigen tests, which can be manufactured in the hundreds of millions per month at a much lower cost than RT?PCR Why is that? Background.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 3, 2022

3, 1992) (“It has come to the attention of FDA that laboratories have been manufacturing, “home brew” products, either from products already on the market, or from components, and utilizing these unapproved products for diagnostic purposes. Mullen — Happy Birthday Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). 92P-0405 (Aug. 12, 1998) (available here ).

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FDA Law

APRIL 8, 2024

For generic drug manufacturing facilities specifically, the numbers are 63% and 87%. The proposed Manufacturing Resiliency Assessment Program (MRAP) would be managed as a public-private partnership and would assign resilience scores to manufacturers of generic drugs, “based on an assessment of manufacturer practices and past performance.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. One thing is clear, it is not because people are using it for FDA approved indications. The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This implies that if device technologies and features can produce a clinically meaningful impact for the treatment or diagnosis of a condition in certain populations, such data could support the case that the device satisfies the first designation criterion. Other Updates With respect to the first part of the first criterion (i.e.,

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FDA Law

JUNE 4, 2025

Ordinarily, a public health initiative of such magnitude would have been governed by a transparent multi-step process featuring public meetings and drawing on external scientific expertise. In other words, as you read this, the Assessments findings and recommendations are getting baked into federal government policy, for better or worse.

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FDA Law

JUNE 2, 2023

Kirschenbaum — Last Friday, May 26, CMS published in the Federal Register an assortment of proposals to change the regulations governing the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Most are new or revised definitions and administrative changes, but several proposals represent new policies that should be of concern to drug manufacturers.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ruth: Thank you.

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Tiny Physician

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The Kerala government has taken off all the restrictions imposed due to the case surge as caseload has come down, and is also planning to restart schools from the second half of November. However, there is no clinical trial on its effect on COVID 19 infection or its complications.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

But the administration is seeking to cut government funding that could serve as a counterweight. The Trump administration has declared that it will aggressively combat chronic disease in America. The report denounces industry-funded research on chemicals and health as widespread and unreliable. Kennedy Jr.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

On February 19, 2025, Judge Sean Jordan in the Eastern District of Texas heard oral arguments in American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) and the Association for Molecular Pathologys (AMP) [1] lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services. Mullen & Jeffrey N. It did not.

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FDA Law

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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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A final OIG rule to change the structure of manufacturer rebates to Medicare Part D and Medicaid Managed Care plans and their PBMs is enmeshed in litigation and is likely to be at least postponed until 2026 (see our post ), and perhaps prevented from implementation altogether, by Congressional mandate. Last Thursday, the U.S.

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