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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

Bill of Health

To protect against individuals or corporations utilizing these cells for profit, ála the Henrietta Lacks story, sophisticated informed consent, and licenses should surely be developed, along with directives on responsibility for maintenance, warehousing, and disposal.,

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 2012 WL 3265002, at *5 (N.D. 8, 2012) (“For claims against trade associations in particular, public policy is ‘part of the legal mix’ and favors not imposing a duty.”); Lockman v. 3d 732, 745 (M.D.N.C.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

2012) (no proof that hypothetical “Dear Doctor letter” or on-product warning would have causal effect given that risk had arisen only once in implanter’s several thousand similar surgeries) (applying Tennessee law); Eck v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals , 2012 WL 1452556, at *?? (Pa. See also Rodriguez v. Stryker Co. , 3d 568, 576-77 (6th Cir.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

2012), it had to apply the rule. 2012 WL 12848432, at *4 (E.D. 4, 2012) (no causation were, “[u]nderstanding the known risks,” the prescribing physicians testified that “they stand by their decisions to prescribe”), aff’d , 747 F.3d 2012); In re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation , 2011 WL 182489, at *2 (E.D.N.Y.

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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. 2012) (“A product is unreasonably dangerous because of a manufacturing defect if it was not built according to its intended design. . . .”). 341 (2001).