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The former chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is pressing the VA to invoke a wartime provision to break the patents on Gilead Sciences’ pricey hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, after the agency stopped treating veterans because it had exceeded the more than $400 million budgeted for hep C treatment. Read More
AbbVie has been sued over an alleged pay-for-delay scheme involving its blockbuster testosterone drug AndroGel, two days after a federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed some claims in a similar suit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission. Read More
Actavis plans to immediately relaunch its generic version of AstraZeneca’s inhaled asthma drug Pulmicort Respules, following a federal appeals court decision upholding a lower court ruling that invalidated the brandmaker’s patent on the drug. Read More
The European Medicines Agency has confirmed plans to halt sales of 700 drug forms and strengths authorized based on clinical studies performed by Hyderabad, India-based GVK Biosciences. Read More
A federal appeals court Friday affirmed a lower court order preventing Actavis from replacing an older formulation of Namenda ahead of generic versions of the Alzheimer’s drug hitting the market in July. Read More
The FDA is hoping that a study of spousal communication related to direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising will help it make better recommendations for these ads. Read More
Johnson & Johnson will be liable for unlimited punitive damages in a bellwether trial next month alleging that Extra Strength Tylenol triggered acute liver failure leading to a woman’s death, under a federal court ruling. Read More
The House Energy & Commerce Committee released a new version of the 21st Century Cures Act that scales back the rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program. Read More