Recent Recap for Week Ending 12/1
Lawyers, Regulatory and Compliance
- Medtech complaint handling: Is there something to complain about?
- Judge Sets Oct. 17 for Next Industry Challenge to Nevada Price Law
- Insurers cutting back on drug coupons amid concerns over consumer costs
Medical Devices
- FDA Finalizes Guidance on Medical Product Classification
- Medical Device Development Tools: Helping to Speed Medical Device Evaluation and Approval
- Rotating FDA inspections at manufacturers to reduce medical device recall rate, says report
Promotional
- Pharma companies turn to wearables to improve R&D
- Discrepancy between trial goals, results may mask treatment risks
Pricing, Reimbursement and Medical Affairs
- Express Scripts: Specialty meds driving up US drug spend
- 10 questions for PhRMA’s CEO Stephen Ubl
Clinical Trials
- Why a “One-Size-Fits-All” Approach in Clinical Trials is Naive
- Patients as partners, communication key to designing rare disease clinical trials
- Desperate Quest For Herpes Cure Launched ‘Rogue’ Trial
Manufacturing
- Continuous Manufacturing: Pfizer, Vertex, AstraZeneca and Others Weigh FDA Plans
- FDA Warns Korean Drugmaker Over Testing, GMP Issues
- Reaching an ‘Inflection Point’ in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Pharmacy
- Compounded Drug Sales Reps, Doctor Admit to $25M Fraud Scheme (H/T Ashley Thomas)
- The Underappreciated Risks of Hospital IV Compounding
- Medication take-back plan draws critics
- A Helpful Tool’ to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Medical Marijuana
- Arizona Child Services Prohibits Medical Marijuana Users From Becoming Foster Parents
- Pennsylvania proposes $50 fee for medical marijuana patient & caregiver IDs
- Medical Marijuana Tax Revenues Exceed State Projections
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- In-Depth: How digital sensors could change the face of pharma
- Nod for pill that can tell your doctor if you have taken your meds
Futurism
- Scientists Engineer Nonimmune Cells That Kill Cancer Upon Contact
- INSIDE THE RACE TO HACK THE HUMAN BRAIN
- For the First Time, a Robot Passed a Medical Licensing Exam
Food
- Leading Brands Promise to Streamline Confusing Food Labels by 2020
- Are you digesting the information when reading nutritional labels?
- Private label success could spur legal challenges for retailers
Patient Advocacy
- Patient-led advisory councils tackling bigger matters
- How to Integrate the Patient Voice into Healthcare Decision-Making
- Listening Is a Lost Art in Medicine. Here’s How to Rediscover It
Bioethics
- A Woman Went Blind After Stem Cells Were Injected in Her Eyes
- The ghosts of HeLa: How cell line misidentification contaminates the scientific literature
- The rise and fall and rise again of 23andMe
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