News & Current Awareness

Food and Drug Law News

• Eye on FDA (Pharma Industry)
• FDA Multibase (Westlaw)
• FDA News (FDA)
• FDA News Publications (Lexis)
• Food & Drug Law Prof Blog
• Medical Devices Law & Industry Report (BNA)
• Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Daily (BNA)
• Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report (BNA)
• SmartBrief (FDLI)

Health Law News

• CAMLAW Blog
• Current Awareness: Health Care Law
• Health Care Policy Report (BNA)
• Healthcare News (Lexis)
• Health Law Prof Blog
• Health Law Reporter (BNA)

Secondary Sources

• Health Care Law Review Articles (Lexis)
• Health Law Journals and Texts (Westlaw)
• FDA Law, by O'Reilly (Westlaw)
• Food and Drug Law Journal (Westlaw)
• Health Law & Business Library (BNA)
• Hein Online
• Index to Legal Periodicals
• LegalTrac

 

Primary Legal Sources

• Code of Federal Regulations (1996-2011) (FDSys)
• Compilation of Presidential Documents (1992-2011) (FDSys)
• Congressional Bills (1993-2011) (FDSys)
• Federal and State Health Care cases (Lexis)
• Federal Register (1994-2011) (FDSys)
• Federal Register (Hein Online)
• Health Law & Business Library (BNA)
• Public Laws (1995-2011) (FDSys)
• Public Laws (Historical, Hein)
• States Codes (Lexis, combined health materials)
• United States Code (1994-2009) (FDSys)
• United States Code Annotated (Westlaw)

 

Food and Drug Administration

• FDA Home page
• Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
• Dockets Management
• Information for FDA-Regulated Industry
• Laws FDA Enforces
• Site Map
• FDA Guidance Documents (Westlaw)

 

Other Federal Government

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
• Department of Agriculture
• Federal Trade Commission
• FDSys (GPO)
• Health and Human Services
• Justice Department agencies
• Patent and Trademark Office
• U.S. Supreme Court
• USA.gov
• White House

State Law Resources

• Law by State (Cornell / LII)
• State Law Sources (Findlaw)

General Research

• BU Libraries Catalog
• BU eJournals
• BU Law eResources: Subject List
• BU Law Health Law Research Guide
• BU Law Health Law Research Portal
• BU eResources
• BU Law eResources
• Google
• Google US Government
• Legal Research Guides (Pappas Law Library)
• LLRX Research Guides
  

 

Select Databases

• IntelliConnect (formerly CCH)
  
  
• BNA (all titles)
• Congressional Universe
• EconLit
• Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds & Flores)
• Medline (PubMed)
• Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
• Science Direct
• Social Science Research Network

 

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