Posts Tagged ‘speech’

Sorting Through The Free Speech Challenges To The FDA

Monday, October 12th, 2009

We noted a week ago Saturday, and analyzed on Thursday, the lawsuit that Allergan recently filed challenging the FDA’s regulations that forbid drug manufacturers from providing truthful information about off-label uses of drugs.

We also mentioned that we were disappointed to learn about the Allergan case by reading about it in The New York Times, rather than learning about it from our usual source — our readers, who typically report to (more…)

Scientific Articles As First Amendment Protected Speech

Friday, August 7th, 2009

We just ran across Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. v. Amersham Health, Inc., ___F. Supp.2d ___, 2009 WL 1743699 (D.N.J. June 30, 2009). Yeah, we know, it’s over a month old — ancient by blawg standards. In our defense, all we can say is that it’s a Lanham Act case, and we pay more attention to the products area.

Anyway, the claim there was that the defendant violated the Lanham Act by causing the publication of supposedly untrue articles (more…)

RadWare from Nuance brings speech recognition to the Radiology Department

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I remember when Nuance was just Dragon Naturally Speaking.  Over the last few years through development and acquiring additional speech recognition technologies the company has grown and seems to have a solution for speech recognition in almost area you can think of.  I use it for blogging, so maybe some day Nuance might have a version that is especially for bloggers, oh well until that day the general software works great.
Back to RadWhere, this (more…)