Medical Law

FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies

In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy, and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry, and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these challenges are compounded by the pressures of globalization, the introduction of novel technologies, and fast-evolving threats …

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Nurse Practitioner’s Business Practice And Legal Guide (Buppert, Nurse Practitioner’s Business Practice and Legal Gu)

Now in its Fourth Edition, best-selling Nurse Practitioner’s Business Practice and Legal Guide continues to provide a solid foundation for students and practicing nurses to build confident and effective practices. A must-have resource for every new or current Nurse Practitioner (NP), it defines what an NP is and does while explaining the legal scope with specific state and …

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Garriott’s Medicolegal Aspects of Alcohol

Now available in its Sixth Edition, Garriott’s Medicolegal Aspects of Alcohol is the hands-down indispensable textbook for forensic toxicology and for anyone involved with the medicolegal aspects of alcohol. Alcohol-related litigation typically pertains to arrests of drinking drivers, but also includes industrial accidents, public transport accidents, and violent crimes. The medicolegal aspects of alcohol are complex topics because …

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Genomic Messages: How the Evolving Science of Genetics Affects Our Health, Families, and Future

Two leaders in the field of genetics—a bioethicist-health lawyer and an obstetrician-gynecologist geneticist—answer the most pressing questions about the application of new genetics to our universal medicine and what personalized medicine means for individual healthcare.Breakthroughs in genetic research are changing modern medicine and pharmaceuticals. But what are these changes and how do they affect our individual care? Genomic …

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Law & Neuroscience (Aspen Casebooks)

The implications for law of new neuroscientific techniques and findings are now among the hottest topics in legal, academic, and media venues. Law and Neuroscience a collaboration of professors in law, neuroscience, and biology is the first coursebook to chart this new territory, providing the world s most comprehensive collection of neurolaw materials.Features:Designed from the ground up with …

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Marketing for the Legal Nurse Consultant

Legal Nurse Consultants have the health/medical knowledge to provide valuable insight into medical issues of legal cases; however, most nurses don’t have a clue about how to market those services. This book offers answers to their marketing problems. They will learn how to: Target attorneys that need their services; classify prospects and assess their needs; develop outstanding brochures …

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The Primary Care Provider’s Guide to Compensation and Quality: Paperback edition

This book has been updated to provide practical advice for primary care providers (PCPs) about major trends that have emerged over the past several years, such as growing patient enrollment in managed care health plans, performance evaluation of PCPs by outside agencies, and the dramatic increase in billing being audited. This book links quality and reimbursement issues, using …

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How & When to Sue Your Lawyer: What You Need to Know

When lawyers represent a client, they have a legal obligation to act professionally, responsibly, and ethically. Unfortunately, all too many lawyers do not live up to these standards. If you have been victimized by your attorney, How & When to Sue Your Lawyer is here to help. The book begins by explaining the American Bar Association’s categories …

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Managing Legal Compliance In The Health Care Industry

The pressures are mounting for healthcare organizations to comply with a growing number of laws and regulations. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, sophisticated compliance programs are now mandatory and the penalties for noncompliance are more severe. Increasingly, those who are trained in the fundamentals of healthcare laws and regulations and the complexities of designing and …

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The Generic Challenge: Understanding Patents, FDA and Pharmaceutical Life-Cycle Management (Fourth Edition)

This Fourth Edition of The Generic Challenge provides important new updates on current regulatory, legal and commercial issues affecting brand and generic pharmaceutical products, including new laws establishing generics for biologics, and changes brought about by the recently enacted America Invents Act. It explains clearly and understandably the roles of patents, FDA regulation of drugs and the Hatch …

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