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In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food

Health Populi

adults are thinking about what they eat and drink as part of their overall health context more in 2020 than they did in 2010. In the past ten years, consumers’ emphasis on overall health has grown: 6 in 10 U.S. Furthermore, two-thirds of people using that digital health tool said the device led to healthy changes in their life.

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The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture

Health Populi

Lisa started the Venture Valkyrie blog in 2010. Four key areas are in her radar: Voice as user interface, as a tool to free doctors from computer screens, provide older people access to things they don’t have, and enable simple queries for parents. “Voice is a big democratizer,” Lisa believes. “Alexa et.

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GOP House Opens With Abortion Agenda

Kaiser Health News

On one hand, the FDA has relaxed some of the risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) from the prescribing rules surrounding abortion pills. The FDA puts these extra restrictions or safeguards in place for certain drugs to add additional protection. And, you know, doctors individually. That’s left up to states.

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CPAP MDL Overinflates Plaintiffs’ Claims

Drug & Device Law

2010) (citations and quotation marks omitted). “[W]e have exercised restraint” and “opt for the interpretation that restricts liability, rather than expands it, until the Supreme Court of [the affected state] decides differently.” 2010). “[E]ven if we were torn between two competing yet sensible interpretations of [state] law. . .,

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

Nonetheless, the Ninth Circuit’s PATDC82 I allowed a RICO claim alleging that, between 1999 and 2011, defendants concealed that risk from the FDA and that, as a result, every TPP in the country paid for Actos prescriptions that it otherwise would not have reimbursed. But the FDA has concluded just the opposite. 3d 1243 (9th Cir.

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Never Satisfied But Motion For New Trial Denied

Drug & Device Law

Redick’s implant, that he was familiar with the Australian registry data, and that he did not recall reading the 2010 label, which was available online and contained the risk information about females and patients needing smaller head sizes.

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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.” The prescriber] provided explicit, uncontroverted testimony that, even when provided with the most current research and FDA mandated warnings, as well as the information found in [defendant’s] updated. . .

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