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NY Medical College Clashes With OIG After Audit Questions $7.5M, PI Salaries, ‘Illegible Signatures’

New York Medical College (NYMC) officials thought the HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) audit was wrapping up in December 2021, based on what “the original senior auditor” told them. But the auditor retired and work...more

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Healthcare Industry Team 2023 Year in Review

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As we approach the conclusion of another transformative year, we are excited to present our comprehensive year-end review, shedding light on the trends shaping the healthcare market in 2023. Our team’s keen insights and...more

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As AI-Assisted Research Advances, Experts Share Worries, Oversight Strategies; Collaboration Urged

At Cornell University, institutional review board (IRB) members meet with the chief information security officer and a liaison to the general counsel’s office. Their regular attendance has been “really critical,” said IRB...more

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New Artificial Intelligence Executive Order Contains Numerous Healthcare Implications

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President Joe Biden on Oct. 30, 2023, signed a sweeping executive order (EO) and invoked the Defense Production Act to establish the first set of standards for using artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and other...more

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HHS Proposes Rescheduling Cannabis to Schedule III – What It Means for the Industry

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It has been widely reported and confirmed publicly that, on August 29, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recommending that cannabis be moved from...more

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FDA Publishes Informed Consent Final Guidance for Drug and Medical Device Clinical Investigations

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued the final guidance document, “Informed Consent: Guidance for Institutional Review Boards, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors” (Final Guidance). The...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Minimizing the Fallout from Increasing FDA Clinical Holds

With medical and scientific advances progressing at an exponential pace, FDA appears to be taking a more aggressive stance in imposing clinical holds on studies where adverse events are reported. Over the last several years,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Issues Guidance on Drug and Biologic Submissions with Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance on drug and biologic submissions to the agency that include real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE). The procedural guidance aims to...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Use and Curation of Real-World Data in Registries

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The US Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance outlining the agency’s recommendations for using real-world data from (and curating such data in) registries to support regulatory decision-making. Pharmaceutical...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Sponsors and Other Stakeholders on Using Registries as RWD to Support Regulatory Decision-Making

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its third draft guidance under the Real-World Evidence (RWE) Program on November 29, 2021. In Real-World Data: Assessing Registries to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for...more

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FDA Releases Draft Guidance for Sponsors on How to Comply with Study Data Standards When Submitting RWD-Sourced Study Data

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance titled Data Standards for Drug and Biological Product Submissions Containing Real-World Data on October 21, 2021. The guidance provides the Agency’s thoughts...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Hawaii Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - October 7th, 7:55 am - 4:00 pm HST

Our Virtual Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Leadership Jobs Finally Filled, ORI Seeks Input on Sequestering Digital Evidence

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 6 (June 2020) - With the recent appointment of an HHS leader as its permanent director and a former Johns Hopkins misconduct official to another key post, the HHS Office of Research...more

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FDA reviews go faster — but with less proof drugs are safer or more effective

For anyone concerned with the quality and safety of prescription medications, this may be an especially displeasing commentary from a pharmaceutical expert about drugs raced to approval now: “Some of them are really great,”...more

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Top experts, by failing to disclose conflicts of interest, shortchange taxpayers

Elite researchers — professors and staff with ties to 20 of the nation’s top universities and the respected National Institutes of Health — may be failing to be as candid as institutions and laws require about their potential...more

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FDA details recommendations for live case presentations during medical device clinical trials in final guidance

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This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the agency) issued a final guidance on live case presentations as part of clinical trials conducted under an approved (or conditionally approved) investigational...more

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NIH issues long-awaited guidance on other support, foreign components, and financial conflicts of interest

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On 10 July 2019 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued its long-awaited guidance addressing grantee disclosure obligations related to researchers' activities outside the United States. ...more

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FDA issues guidance on use of EHR data in clinical research

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Many hospitals and health systems conduct sponsored clinical research at their facilities, and clinical trial agreements typically require that sponsors and clinical investigators have access to certain data regarding the...more

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FDA Draft Guidance Regarding Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials

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The Situation: Pregnant women have historically been excluded from clinical trials due to concerns about the potential for adverse effects on pregnant women and their fetuses. The Development: The U.S. Food and Drug...more

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New guidance from OCR regarding protected health information

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued new guidance on HIPAA and individual authorization of uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) for research, as called...more

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FDA Weighs In on When Pregnant Patients Should be Included in Clinical Trials

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In a recently issued draft guidance for industry, FDA encourages drug sponsors to consider the inclusion of pregnant subjects in clinical studies evaluating drugs and therapeutic biological products in some circumstances and...more

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Clinical trials: Digital technology for recruitment, consent, and data capture

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The conduct of clinical trials still relies heavily on the use of paper documents. Of course, electronic case report forms (eCRF) have been commonly used for many years – the medical information on a patient that is...more

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Keeping up with NIH rules impacting research involving human subjects

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) made a number of changes to the rules impacting research involving human subjects in recent years, including the launch of several new initiatives that fall into two categories: those...more

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What’s new with the Common Rule? Clinical research and Common Rule updates

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The updates to the Common Rule, effective January 19, 2018, make some significant changes of which those involved in government-funded clinical research involving human subjects should be aware. These changes include...more

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Italy approves new provisions on informed consent and advance decision of medical treatments – Why it matters for clinical trials...

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On December 14th, 2017, the Italian Senate passed a long-awaited bill (DDL no 2801) governing the informed consent to medical treatments, which also allows individuals to express their wishes on medical treatments in the...more

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