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In a major positive step for the cannabis industry, the New York Stock Exchange last month listed a new real estate investment trust called Innovative Industrial Properties...

On December 23, 2022, Congress enacted the first major statutory change to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s ability to regulate cosmetics since the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).

While the Trump Administration's antitrust policy is still developing, and most believe it will provide for less enforcement than antitrust policy under the Obama Administration, the Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday, March 31, that it has no intention of letting up on the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, where the FTC has been increasingly active over the past few years.

On August 5, 2016, CMS published a Survey and Certification Memorandum urging State health departments to enforce violations by nursing homes in posting patient images on social media.

The DOJ recently reported that two-thirds of the $2.68 billion in False Claims Act judgments and settlements in 2023, or $1.8 billion, came from the healthcare industry.

Inconsistency Among Courts Regarding Pleading Standards for Parallel Claims Involving Medical Devices.

On Monday, November 4, supermarket chain Kroger finalized a settlement agreement with dozens of state attorneys general requiring the company to pay a total of $1.37 billion...

Following up on a post from last week entitled "OIG Issues Fraud Alert on Medical Director Arrangements", the US Department of Justice announced today a $17 million settlement of a False Claims Act suit brought by the former CFO of a Miami nursing home network.

On November 23, 2011, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in "Klasch v. Walgreen Co.", Nev. No. 54805, 1123(11), that a pharmacist who has knowledge that a patient may be at risk with respect to specific prescription drugs may be liable for failing to warn the patient or prescribing physician.

A new policy recently issued by the Justice Department states that the Department will not use its enforcement authority to effectively convert agency guidance documents into binding rules.

In a major development for New York, its Department of Health officially approved a regulation, first proposed in December, to allow people with "any severe debilitating pain that the practitioner determines degrades health and functional capability" that has lasted or is expected to last at least three months to access legal medical marijuana.

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (the OIG) released its work plan for 2015.

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (the OIG) released its work plan for 2015.

According to the OIG, the charity that sought and received the AO, breached two commitments made in its AO request.

In a recent GEN Edge article, Duane Morris partner Rebecca Guzman discussed the state of M&A activity in the life sciences.

Earlier this year , I wrote that 2015 might be the year that medical marijuana legislation is passed in Pennsylvania.

I am about to work with the Illinois Hospital Association (IHA) on the third edition of IHA's Record Retention Reference.

In a 5-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, No. 15-275, slip op. (June 27, 2016) reversed a decision of the Fifth Circuit and overturned as unconstitutional...