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President Biden Signs End-of-Year Legislation Including Telehealth, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Other Health Care Provisions

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Notably, the Act neither fulfilled the Biden Administration’s request for additional COVID-19 response funding nor included the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge In Vitro Clinical Test (IVCT) Development (VALID) Act, which proposed updating the current diagnostic testing regulatory framework. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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The BFDs – The Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

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2023) ( Buckman preemption barred MDL asserting fraud on EPA), cert. Since the FDA requires pre-approval of any warnings about off-label uses, preemption at some point should have been pre-ordained under the Mensing ( 2011+1 ) independence principle, but off-label use did not really figure in Zofran ’s analysis. 19) Klinker v.

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Agree To Disagree – Don’t  Sue the Other Side of a Scientific Dispute into Silence

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Criticizing attempts to sue publishers of scientific content, here in 2011, and again, here in 2013. Ridiculing a blatantly unconstitutional Missouri statute that sought to silence pharmacists critical of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for COVID-19, just yesterday. American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. ,