Legally Qualified: Can Employers Require Vaccines?
Can Employers Require COVID-19 Vaccinations?
On August 22, Moderna announced that FDA approved its supplemental Biologics License Application (“sBLA”) for a new formula of their COVID-19 vaccine, SPIKEVAX®, for individuals 12 years old and above. Emergency Use...more
A little over two years ago, the FDA authorized Paxlovid for emergency use for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg) who are at high risk for progression to severe...more
Executive Summary - On October 19, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance document titled Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19: Guidance for Industry, providing...more
As we take a breather during the holiday whirlwind, we wanted to flag for readers a recent development in advertising and promotion regulation that FDA quietly released nearly a month ago. In a Memorandum issued on October 27...more
Questions Remain for Pharmacy Test-to-Treat Programs Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid to authorize state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe the...more
It is, somewhat amazingly, the beginning of January again. During this time of year we typically publish a series of blog posts that recap the most interesting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) activities over the prior 12...more
Even as the coronavirus batters parts of the country, notably the Mountain West, public health officials are pointing to key ways in which Americans could safely and effectively further quell the pandemic that has claimed...more
This week in Washington: Debt ceiling measure signed by President Biden; default averted for at least a month. Discussions about budget reconciliation continue....more
This week in Washington: Becerra confirmed 50-49 to be Secretary of Health and Human Services...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and...more
In addition to the incredible work of agency scientists and reviewers to get the first COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in December (as we covered in Part 2 of our year-end post), the Food and Drug...more
On November, 10, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the investigational neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab (Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN) for the...more
Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons virtual event series - The fast pace of innovation in the life sciences and health care industry has reached an all-time high in 2020 as the industry grapples with the new reality of...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 39 (November 2, 2020) - CMS said Oct. 28 that Medicare will pay hospitals extra when they treat inpatients with drugs or biologicals approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of AGG outside the Food and Drug practice....more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) announced on October 7 that it will no longer review Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for laboratory developed tests (LDTs). LDTs are a distinct category of in vitro...more
FDA recently revoked a multi-month Emergency Use Authorization (the EUA) for use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as an experimental treatment for patients suffering from COVID-19. ...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued two guidance documents outlining the agency's expectations for COVID-19 drug development. The first guidance, "COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: General...more
On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance surrounding the use of 3D printing on medical devices, accessories, components, and parts during the COVID-19 pandemic....more
Starting in February 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) began using its Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”) powers under Section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FD&C”) to allow unapproved...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) allowing distribution of two decades-old malaria drugs — Chloroquine Phosphate and Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate — to treat COVID-19. ...more
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an increasing number of EUAs, now in the double digits, for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) products and personal...more