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FDA says that it knows that the clock is ticking on internet and social media guidance

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2013

Our readers know that we've been posting about the FDA's obligation to issue guidance on promotion of medical products using the Internet and social

A solid decison dismissing third party payer claims -- and a mundane Oscar decision

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

We're a bit too tired from going late into the evening watching the Oscars to say much of anything pithy today. We'll just complain. Argo was a very

Social media guidance countdown continues: 576, 575, 574 . . .

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 10 2012

Almost all of us dabble in social media

More inspiration from the courts on commercial speech

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 9 2012

When most of us think of the First Amendment, commercial speech is probably not what springs to mind

Retractions of scientific articles

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 15 2011

Last Wednesday an article appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, "Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge," that got our attention

Industry tries again for clarity concerning off-label promotion

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 8 2011

With the ink barely dry on the Supreme Court’s recent decision that pharmaceutical detailing is First Amendment protected commercial speech, see Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., ___ U.S. ___, 2011 WL 2472796, at 8 (U.S. June 23, 2011), the industry is trying again for clarity in the morass that is the FDA’s current regulation (if it can be called that) of off-label promotion

On suing publishers

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2011

Not too long ago a case here in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Slater v. Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., ___ F. Supp.2d ___, 2011 WL 1087240 (E.D. Pa. March 25, 2011), held that an inadequate warning claim against a “monograph publisher” survived the rather loose standard imposed upon fraudulent joinder