Mobile medicine apps are the future: legal issues remain
Mobile medicine apps are the future, as we move increasingly into digital, virtual communication; yet FDA medical device and other legal issues remain.
Continue Reading...Is my product a medical device, a drug, a cosmetic, a biologic, or otherwise FDA-regulated?
Many entrepreneurs want to know whether their invention is a medical device, a drug, a cosmetic, a biologic, or otherwise FDA-regulated.
Continue Reading...Legal action pushes FDA on its response to qualified health claims
A federal judge recently held that the disclaimer required by the FDA for a qualified health claim about green tea and the risk of cancer is so strongly worded that it “effectively negates” the manufacturer’s claim.
Continue Reading...FDA regulates electric toothbrushes as medical devices
You might be surprised to learn that electric toothbrushes are regulated as medical devices.
Continue Reading...FDA warns consumers about grapefruit juice
Grapefruit juice and fresh grapefruit can interfere with the action of some prescription drugs, FDA warns consumers.
Continue Reading...Integrative Mental Health Care Experts Launch
Consumers, mental healthcare professionals, researchers and public health advocates can now access comprehensive information on all aspects of integrative mental healthcare.
Dietary supplements regulations make IRS rules read like Hemingway
Dietary supplement regulation requires companies to seek careful legal guidance before bringing products to market.
Continue Reading...Incredible India - Tamil Nadu
A week-long mystical journey in Tamil Nadu, India: transformation of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Continue Reading...Conflict of interest rulings affect medical doctors
New conflicts of interest disclosures will broaden physicians' reporting obligations.
Continue Reading...Coordinated government efforts target health care fraud and abuse
Coordinated government enforcement targets fee-splitting, Stark and kickback fraud and abuse in health care.
Continue Reading...Medical device manufacturer executives sentenced for rogue clinical trials
Several medical device manufacturer executives were given long terms for rogue clinical trials.
Continue Reading...OIG Unfavorably Reviews a Laboratory Management Company's Proposed Provision of Allergy Testing and Related Services in Exchange for a Percentage of Gross Collections
A new OIG fraud and abuse Advisory Opinion sheds makes percentage-based MSO arrangements questionable, where Medicare is involved.
Continue Reading...11:11:11 to the 11:11:11th power
11:11:11 came in with prosperity blessings as the transformational shift awaited for centuries....
Continue Reading...Professional Medical Corporation or LLC? Fictitious Name Permit?
When physicians try to "partner" with non-physicians, they often confront challenges under the corporate practice of medicine rule.
Continue Reading...Medicare Options for Physicians: Participation, Non-Participation, or Opt Out
Physicians sometimes unwittingly run afoul of Medicare legal rules by not knowing the difference between non-participation, their default status short of participation, and opting out, which requires doctors to take specific action steps.
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The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide is now available from Springer.
One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of
Michael H. Cohen's novel A Question of Time is about consciousness. Gabriel Goodman takes a vacation from his law firm
Legal Issues in Integrative Medicine: A Guide for Clinicians, Hosptials, and Patients by Michael H. Cohen (National Acupuncture Foundation,
In Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives, Michael H. Cohen breaks new ground in putting together the
In Beyond Complementary Medicine, Michael H. Cohen goes deeper into the legal, ethical, and regulatory aspects of integrating complementary and
Future Medicine by Michael H. Cohen is an investigation into the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes occurring in our
What happens when a Wall Street lawyer, steeped in Judaism, enters an interfaith seminary, engages mystically, and connects with disincarnate