This Week’s Life Science Headlines October 31, 2013 / FDA Medical Device News Pharmaceuticals Recalls Regulatory Settlements Verdicts / Life Science Matters Litigation 6th Circ. Won’t Hear Appeal of Darvocet Suit Remand (subscription required) Okla. Supreme Court Gives Harsh Take on Abortion Drug Law (subscription required) Takeaways from McPhee v. DePuy’s Preemption Pronouncement (subscription required) Canadian Court Won’t Shrink Paxil Birth Defect Class (subscription required) Major Medical Device Manufacturer Agrees to Pay $13.2 Million to Settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Charges Dow Seeks En Banc Review of Cancer Cluster Suit (subscription required) Lumina Diet Supplement Class Action Stays in Fed. Court (subscription required) GSK Can’t Sink Avandia Prescription Coverage RICO Suits (subscription required) 6th Cir. Revives Wrongful Death Suit Against HHS (subscription required) Boehringer Ingelheim Seeks to Block Pradaxa Depositions of Executives Regulatory FDA Chides Sunovion Over Misstating Brovana Risks, Benefits (subscription required) Post-Market Studies Lag for Drugs Fast-Tracked by FDA: Study Bill Risks Confusion to Curb FDA’s Already-Lax App Oversight (subscription required) FDA and Partners Launch e-Learning Course on Evaluating Drug Promotion EU Parliament Approves Compromise on Device Reforms – But Will It Be Enacted? FDA Recommends Reclassifying Vicodin as Harder Drug FDA Approves Abbott Device for Leaking Heart Valve Recalls Inclusig (ponatinib) Recalled Novo Nordisk Recalls Insulin Pens All Over Europe (subscription required) Codman and Shurtleff MedStream Programmable Infusion Pump and Refill Kits – Drug Over Infusion Draeger Medical Fabius Series Anesthesia Machines – Failure of Automatic Ventilation Other Interesting Reads 2013 Medical Device Development Report CDER Small Business Webinar on Stability Guidance for ANDAs and Draft Questions and Answers Quidance – November 4, 2013 (Guidance found here and webinar registration found here.) Medical Device Company Paying $13.2 Million For Civil Bribery Charges For a look at last week’s important headlines, click here. Life Science Matters
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