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FDA & FTC compliance insights for healthcare marketing

Plain-English breakdowns of the warning letters, settlements, and regulatory shifts that determine whether your marketing can survive contact with a regulator.

Modality playbook

Ketamine Clinic Marketing Compliance Guide: IV Ketamine for Depression Without Triggering an FDA Letter

Most ketamine clinic marketing problems are not exotic - they are six or seven repeated phrases that the FDA October 2023 communication and 2024 enforcement actions have already singled out. This guide focuses on the IV ketamine for depression use case and rewrites the patterns that get clinics in trouble.

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Modality playbook

NAD+ IV Therapy Marketing and the FDA Position: What Actually Has Approval, What Does Not, and How to Word It

Most NAD+ IV therapy marketing trouble is upstream of the FTC longevity-claim issue. It is the quiet implication that NAD+ has some kind of FDA status it does not have. Here is the actual FDA position and how to word a NAD+ program page around it.

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Modality playbook

Ozone Therapy Marketing Compliance Rules: The FDA Position on Medical Ozone and the Phrases That Trigger Action

The FDA has stated publicly that ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application. That position is the entire frame for ozone therapy marketing. Most ozone clinic copy is written as if the FDA is silent on the topic - it is not.

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Modality playbook

BPC-157 Peptide Marketing and the 503A Pharmacy Layer: Why the FDA Bulks-List Decision Changed Everything

BPC-157 sits on the FDA category 2 list - nominated for 503A bulks and not advanced. Marketing copy written for the pre-category-2 era is now operating in a different legal world. Here is what changed and the rewrites that work.

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Modality playbook

TRT Marketing Compliance for Men's Health Clinics: The Hypogonadism Labeling Line and the Anti-Aging Trap

TRT has an FDA-approved indication: classical hypogonadism. Most men's health clinic marketing reads like the indication is feeling tired in your 40s. That gap is the entire compliance issue. Here is how to market TRT in 2026 without inheriting the anti-aging claim trap.

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Enforcement trends

FDA Warning Letters at a 25-Year High: What Every Healthcare Practice Needs to Know in 2026

More than 200 FDA warning letters hit healthcare practices in 2024 - the highest volume in a quarter century. Here is what is being flagged, why regenerative medicine and med spas are on the front line, and what a defensible marketing program looks like now.

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Case study

How a Single Social Media Post Can Become a Multi-Million-Dollar FTC Settlement

Multi-million-dollar FTC settlements against stem cell and regenerative medicine clinics now routinely start with a single Instagram caption or Facebook testimonial. Here is how that chain actually works - and the four places clinics lose control of it.

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Foundational

Structure/Function Claims vs. Disease Claims: The One FDA Distinction That Determines Whether Your Marketing Is Legal

One line separates legal marketing from a warning letter: the difference between a structure/function claim and a disease claim. Most practice owners think they know where the line is. They are usually wrong by one or two key phrases.

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Reference list

The 7 Banned Words That Trigger FDA Warning Letters in Healthcare Marketing (2026 Update)

Seven specific words generate a disproportionate share of FDA warning letters and FTC actions in healthcare marketing. Here is the 2026 list - with the compliant alternative for every word and five adjacent phrases that drag you into the same violation.

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