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A federal judge has tossed out all claims brought against Pfizer and Ranbaxy by retailers and distributors in a larger lawsuit that alleges the two companies colluded to delay a generic version of Pfizer’s blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor.
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The Federal Trade Commission is suing AbbVie and its partner Besins Healthcare, along with generic firm Teva, over an alleged pay-for-delay deal that put off generic entry of AbbVie and Besins’s blockbuster testosterone gel AndroGel 1%. Read More
The head of a non-profit that pushes for more products to be made in the U.S. is suing Apotex and Costco for selling a generic of the cholesterol drug Lipitor that didn’t indicate it was made in India. Read More
Generic drugs continued their market growth last year, rising two percentage points to 86 percent of all prescriptions dispensed in the U.S. market, according to a new study. Read More
New York’s attorney general has filed what may be a first-of-its-kind antitrust lawsuit against Actavis and subsidiary Forest Laboratories for seeking to switch patients on its Alzheimer’s drug Namenda to a newer formulation with longer lasting patents in order to stave off generic competition. Read More
Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals received FDA clearance to provide its TKM-Ebola RNA interference therapeutic to patients with suspected or confirmed cases of the deadly disease. 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
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
Drugmakers say they will be forced to abandon social media due to proposed FDA requirements to present both risk and benefit information in character-limited social media messages — a requirement they contend the agency doesn’t even follow. Read More
The FDA slammed Cipher Pharmaceuticals for an email that contains overblown superiority claims promoting a cholesterol drug, the latest signal this year that the agency is scrutinizing drugmakers’ electronic promotions. Read More
Amgen is recalling nine lots of its anemia drug Aranesp after a small number of syringes were found to potentially contain cellulose and/or polyester particles. Read More