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TOP 5 HEALTH LAWS AND POLICY UPDATES

Dear Readers, we are happy to share the most interesting legal and policy updates concerning health industry that we read today. we hope you enjoy reading it.

1. India’s Central level drug regulator the Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) has issued a correction to the list of Fixed Drug Combinations for which manufacturing licenses can be obtained directly from the state regulators. The updated list is available on the website of the CDSCO at the given link.
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2. India’s Nursing professional regulator, the Nursing Council of India has issued Regulations prescribing the institutional and educational standards required to conduct the Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Nursing Program.
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3. A district level Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has recently held that insurance providers cannot deny claims of policy-holders, on grounds of a medical issue arising out of “pre-existing conditions” if the “pre-existing conditions” is not the sole cause of the medical condition for which claim as made.
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4. India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recently notified the updated grievance redressal system, and new physical verification procedure for empanelled hospitals aimed at improving service offering under the government’s public healthcare scheme.
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5. Industry groups make a representation to the European Policymakers to withdraw its recent AI Public Liability Directive protocol which sought to introduce non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence used by service providers, claiming that the non-contractual nature of the civil liability will disrupt existing supply-chains based on contractual understanding between service providers and receivers.
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TOP 5 HEALTH LAWS AND POLICY UPDATES

Dear Readers, we are happy to share the most interesting legal and policy updates concerning health industry that we read today. We hope you enjoy reading it.

1. India’s Central Drug Regulator the Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) has been made an affiliate member of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF). The application submitted by the Indian Government has been accepted contingent on the adoption of comprehensive regulation of Medical Devices in alignment with the existing international standards.
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2. India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has introduced Guidelines for Withdrawal of Life Support in Terminally Ill Patients, which sets out the institutional oversight requirements to facilitate ethical and informed decision-making in this regard.
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3. The Supreme Court has held that in case of criminal suits which have an overwhelming civil quality, i.e. are based on private wrongs, where the parties to such criminal suits have already settled with each other, High Courts should exercise their powers under Sec. 482 of the CrPC and quash the underlying criminal proceedings.
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4. India’s Central Drugs regulatory authority the Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) has decided that it will initiate action against a manufacturer of eye-drops, which had recently made social-media posts and conducted conferences regarding its new product, which had come under scrutiny for the claim that it would manage near-sightedness, and in pursuance of that, forwarded the matter to the State Drug Regulator of the state of Gujarat where the company is based.
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5. A prominent US based medical systems and medical devices manufacturer which has suffered a data-breach of its systems leading to the leak of sensitive personal and medical information of its patients, is currently facing a class-action lawsuit on grounds that the breach was caused due to non-adherence to industry standard practices in data storage and security.
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