{"identifier":"/us/usc/t21/s396","title_num":"21","num":"§ 396.","heading":"Practice of medicine","status":null,"guid":"id1d62e555-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d","source_credit":"(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1006, formerly § 906, as added Pub. L. 105–115, title II, § 214, Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2348; renumbered § 1006, Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(2), June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1784.)","seq_in_title":326,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t21/ch9/schX","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t21","level":"title","num":"Title 21—","heading":"FOOD AND DRUGS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t21/ch9","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 9—","heading":"FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t21/ch9/schX","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER X—","heading":"MISCELLANEOUS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" id=\"id1d62e555-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t21/s396\"><num value=\"396\">§ 396.</num><heading> Practice of medicine</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or interfere with the authority of a health care practitioner to prescribe or administer any legally marketed device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship. This section shall not limit any existing authority of the Secretary to establish and enforce restrictions on the sale or distribution, or in the labeling, of a device that are part of a determination of substantial equivalence, established as a condition of approval, or promulgated through regulations. Further, this section shall not change any existing prohibition on the promotion of unapproved uses of legally marketed devices.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id1d630c66-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d\">\n(<ref href=\"/us/act/1938-06-25/ch675/s1006\">June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1006</ref>, formerly § 906, as added <ref href=\"/us/pl/105/115/s214\">Pub. L. 105–115, title II, § 214</ref>, <date date=\"1997-11-21\">Nov. 21, 1997</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/111/2348\">111 Stat. 2348</ref>; renumbered § 1006, <ref href=\"/us/pl/111/31/s101/b/2\">Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(2)</ref>, <date date=\"2009-06-22\">June 22, 2009</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/123/1784\">123 Stat. 1784</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id1d630c67-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d\">\n<note topic=\"effectiveDate\"><heading>Effective Date</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Section effective 90 days after <date date=\"1997-11-21\">Nov. 21, 1997</date>, except as otherwise provided, see <ref href=\"/us/pl/105/115/s501\">section 501 of Pub. L. 105–115</ref>, set out as an Effective Date of 1997 Amendment note under <ref href=\"/us/usc/t21/s321\">section 321 of this title</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"113-21","currency_date":"2013-07-18","congress":113,"law_num":21,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":0,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","16","18","22","33","36","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"113-21","currency_date":"2013-07-18","congress":113,"law_num":21,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":0,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","16","18","22","33","36","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-21","currency_date":"2013-07-18","congress":113,"law_num":21,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":0,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","16","18","22","33","36","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}