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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

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The amendment defines healthcare entity to include any individual physician or other healthcare professional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of healthcare facility, organization, or plan.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. W]e believe that a drug manufacturer cannot be required legally to foresee that a licensed physician will disregard express warnings regarding a drug’s use. . . . 2005) (no causation where prescriber “testified that he selected. . . Wyeth , 72 Pa. 2d 141 (Pa.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

The 2005 revisions to Article 2 excludes “information” from the definition of goods and also defines computer software as “information.” Alaska 2005), predicted that Alaska would follow the Third Restatement “defin[ition] of a product as ‘tangible personal property distributed commercially for use or consumption.” Id. Munhoven v.