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Book Review: ‘Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust’ by Mikkael A. Sekeres

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In Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust , oncologist Mikkael A. Sekeres centers his narrative on the controversial 2011 Avastin hearings , in which the FDA reconsidered and ultimately withdrew the breast cancer indication for Genentech’s Avastin drug. By Matthew Chun.

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Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship Now Accepting Applications

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What do a MacArthur Genius award winner, several health law professors at top schools, executive directors of leading health law centers, an associate chief counsel of the FDA, and partners and associates at top health care law firms all have in common? The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship !

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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now top of mind for lawyers, scholars, policymakers, and the public. State pharmaceutical bans and restrictions — which are often medically unnecessary and instead based largely on policymakers’ moral and political views — impede the FDA’s mandate to protect and promote the public health.

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Public Health Product Hops

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Dmitry’s talk, “Evergreening: The FDA’s Role in the Creation of Balanced Rights for Pharmaceutical Improvements,” was developed into an article and published in the Iowa Law Review in 2019 titled “The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA.”

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2022-2023 Student Fellows

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These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from across Harvard. Sarah Gabriele is a second year Master of Bioethics candidate at Harvard Medical School. We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. Louis (USA).

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2023-2024 Student Fellows

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These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School. His current research focuses on tensions between the patent incentive system, the FDA approval process, and insurance carriers. Vincent Joralemon is a law student (J.D.

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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

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FDA Approval. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which “ regulates the sale of medical device products (including diagnostic tests) in the U.S. ” Although it is questionable whether the FDA would ever approve the Sarco machine as a medical device, it turns out the FDA may not need to. .”

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