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The FDA issued a warning letter to injectables giant Hospira after an investigation of its Victoria, Australia, plant uncovered significant good manufacturing practice violations, including a failure to adequately investigate failed batches and determine levels of impurities in distributed products. Read More
Drugmakers Sagent and Baxter Healthcare recently recalled products due to labeling mix-ups, a common quality problem that one expert says can be easily solved through an additional examination by personnel. Read More
Endo International will acquire Auxilium Pharmaceuticals in a move that is expected to bolster Endo’s pipeline of testosterone products, which FDA advisors have recently scrutinized. Read More
Canadian generics firm Apotex has asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to rehear a case alleging brandmaker UCB’s hypertension drug Univasc infringed on one of Apotex’s patents. Read More
A federal judge has dismissed some claims in a case alleging Teva and Pfizer-subsidiary Wyeth forged an anticompetitive agreement to delay generic competition on Wyeth’s antidepressant Effexor XR. Read More
Brandmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals and generics firm Impax Laboratories are facing their third lawsuit over allegations the companies cut an anticompetitive deal to delay generic competition on Endo’s pain medication Opana ER. Read More
Two New York congressmen have become the latest on Capitol Hill to question a proposed FDA rule that would give generics firms the same authority to change drug labels as brandmakers, a rule that GPhA has threatened to challenge in court if necessary. Read More
Generics firm Par Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay Salix Pharmaceuticals $100 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit over its version of Salix’s heartburn drug Zegerid. Read More
Impax has agreed to pay shareholders $8 million to end a class action lawsuit alleging the brand and generics maker deliberately withheld the extent of its manufacturing practice violation problems. Read More
A federal judge has tossed out some conspiracy claims brought against Abbott and its spinoff AbbVie over an alleged coupon scheme to boost sales of their branded arthritis drug Humira and testosterone therapy AndroGel. Read More
Pfizer and Ranbaxy have asked a federal judge to follow his own precedent and dismiss all remaining class-action lawsuits alleging the companies colluded to delay generic versions of Pfizer’s blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor. Read More
The FDA is turning up the heat on drugmakers who don’t pay their generic drug user fees, warning its tenth manufacturer since the summer for delinquent fees. Read More