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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Bill of Health

He has contributed to public psychedelic research and harm reduction efforts through a variety of organizations and outlets since 2009. Lily Kay Ross, MDiv, PhD has been taking a feminist approach to theorizing psychedelic ethics since 2009, especially with regard to sexual misconduct, abuses of power, and gendered violence.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Further, “both doctors testified that they still prescribe [the drug] for patients with conditions similar to plaintiff’s condition.” 2009), reversed a plaintiff’s verdict for entry of judgment n.o.v. July 8, 2009) (applying California law); Nix v. Schering Corp. , 2d 1140, 1148 (N.J. 1993) (dissenting opinion). Mason , 27 So.3d

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Who Needs a Lawyer in the Eleventh Circuit?

Drug & Device Law

This time, plaintiff pleaded “1) violation of [defendant’s] premarket approval; 2) breach of implied warranty; and 3) lack of informed consent (failure to warn).” Id. She also tried to sue three new defendants – a doctor, a medical society and the FDA itself. 2009 WL 3294873 (D. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Best Pharmacal , 577 P.2d Robins Co. ,

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Doctors Without Burdens:  Another Mesh Court Goes Backwards

Drug & Device Law

Larkin did not discuss the standard for proximate causation or suggest, as Thacker implies, that informed consent is part of the inquiry. It focused squarely on the doctor. Decisions to use specific prescription medical products during emergency procedures, for instance, do not involve patient choice.) Corder , 473 F.Supp.3d

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