The U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides scores of medical/health research databases and resources. Several of these are helpful for medical/health law research. PubMed/Medline is the free premier NLM biomedical literature database. It …
Hospitals are concerned that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Incentive Auction of much of the unused television airwaves (aka “white space”) to mobile carriers will lead to the disruption of patient monitoring systems. Unlicensed communications devices (eg, garage door …
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) recently launched ten regional Elder Justice Task Forces (EJTF) “to coordinate and enhance efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.” The EJTF teams “will include representatives from the …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released draft guidance that “recommends studies, including comparative in vitro studies, which should be conducted to demonstrate that a proposed generic solid oral opioid drug product is no less abuse-deterrent than its …
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Public Citizen’s Health Research Group (HRG) recently filed a civil action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA; 5 U.S.C. 552: Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings), …
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