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

Cosmetics

• Trend Spotting: in-cosmetics North America 2017
• Walgreens Boots Alliance partnership for own beauty brand manufacture begins
• Kanebo decodes makeup habits of Millennial women

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