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MHRA guidance for website advertising of medicines

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 6 2009

In November 2008, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products regulatory Agency (MHRA) published guidance relating to the advertising of prescription only medicine (POM) on consumer websites to assist in compliance with the Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994

Have your say on defamation and shape a new law fit for the 21st century

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 7 2009

A regular question we face is whether NHS organisations can take action when people post defamatory comments on the internet

The rise and fall of internet sperm donation sites

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 1 2010

A Google search "looking for sperm donors" brings up over 70,000 results

Online food marketing a “cynical” ploy to target children, claims new report

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2012

A recent report issued by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) has described online food marketing to children as “pervasive,” with more than 75 percent of Websites targeting children with high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) products “linked to a corresponding product or brand page on a social networking site” such as Facebook or Twitter

Competition

  • Dentons
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2012

The European Commission is pursuing formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international publishers have, possibly with the help of Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting the sale of e-books in the EU

UK group files complaints about online ads targeting kids

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 10 2012

A U.K.-based public interest charity has filed 54 separate complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) contending that the subject companies, including Cadbury and Pringle’s, are promoting food products high in sugars, fat or salt to children online

The e-regulator: press round up May 2012

  • Kingsley Napley
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 9 2012

The GMC is seeking views on new draft guidance which sets out what is expected from doctors when they are using social media

IP snapshot

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 21 2012

The High Court has refused to grant a stay of proceedings for infringement of a Community Trade Mark under Article 104(1) of the CTM Regulation where there were parallel proceedings before OHIM

Doctors’ use of social media

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • March 21 2013

There has been a significant increase in the use of social media platforms in medicine and healthcare in recent years. In a recent survey conducted