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A California appeals court has reinstated a $6.5 million jury award against Takeda in a case involving its diabetes drug Actos, which announced in April that it would pay up to $2.4 billion to settle the majority of U.S. lawsuits involving the therapy. Read More
In a document released Friday, the Senate Appropriations Committee calls for fiscal year 2016 user fee amounts totaling nearly $1.2 billion for drugs and biologics — figures that are in line with those proposed by its counterpart in the House. Read More
A whistleblower’s willingness to wear a wire added $7 million to her share of the Endo Pharmaceuticals False Claims Act settlement over its painkiller Lidoderm. Read More
Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals is buying Egypt’s largest drugmaker, Amoun Pharmaceutical, for about $800 million — giving the firm a platform for further expansion in the region. Read More
A Jacksonville, Florida-based compounding pharmacy has agreed to pay $8.4 million to settle allegations that it billed the U.S. government for improper pain prescriptions, in violation of the False Claims Act. Read More
Generics manufacturer Amphastar Pharmaceuticals was silenced by a federal judge in California over its latest whistleblower lawsuit in a 12-year battle over Sanofi’s blockbuster anticoagulant Lovenox. Read More
A Johnson & Johnson factory that closed in 2010 after being at the center of massive recalls of over-the-counter products is close to reopening, the company said Tuesday. Read More
AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly have agreed to conduct a clinical trial to assess the safety and preliminary efficacy of AZ’s experimental anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor MEDI4736 in combination with Lilly’s Cyramza treatment for patients with advanced solid cancer tumors. Read More