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E-cigarettes: The non-medical device device. E-cigarettes are tobacco as opposed to a new innovative medical device to deliver nicotine. That is the ruling the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s is forced to live with after court decisions and an announcement on Monday.
Providers of e-cigs cheered a chance to weed out “shady competition.” The FDA had earlier wanted these plastic, electronic distributors of liquid nicotine to be regulated as drug delivery devices.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
So consider e-cigarettes the new tobacco: Half of the 19 brands of e-cigarettes the FDA sampled contained a carcinogen found in real cigarettes and many contained a poisonous ingredient of antifreeze.
Tufts nurses strike: May 6. And this nursing strike sounds like it will be ugly.
Tufts Medical Center boss said she has replacements lined up.
“We have no concerns about being able to properly staff the medical center,” said Zane, who said she has arranged for about 200 out-of-state registered nurses to care for patients. “We would prefer our own nurses, but these nurses come highly recommended.”
Hep C holdup. Merck’s hepatitis C drug Victrelis seems to have what it takes to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. It will be a big week for Hep C blockbusters. Vertex Pharmaceuticals gets an FDA review one day after Merck’s.
A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Primary care’s falling popularity. Latest medical school poll: the appeal of primary care as a reason to go into internal medicine fell to 33 percent from 57 percent.
Shoot me now. Twenty-four percent of Americans say they place “some trust” in information provided by celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy on the safety of vaccines, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. Doctors, luckily, are still the most trusted source: 76 percent trust their doctors the most.
That study comes on the heels of a rough assessment of The New York Times Magazine’s autism story.
