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The price of Gilead’s hepatitis C drug Sovaldi once again is drawing bipartisan fire from Capitol Hill, this time from two senators who are demanding answers as to how the company arrived at the product’s $1,000-a-pill price tag. Read More
Abbott Laboratories is sharpening its focus on devices and diagnostics, selling its developed markets generic drug business to Mylan for $5.3 billion in stock. Read More
Pfizer is facing at least three class action lawsuits alleging that the company went to extraordinary, fraudulent lengths to maintain exclusivity over its multibillion dollar arthritis pain drug Celebrex and keep generic competitors off the market. Read More
A group of third-party pharmaceutical payers is moving to settle part of a class action lawsuit against Pfizer-subsidiary King Pharmaceuticals and generics maker Mutual Pharmaceutical over their alleged collusion to delay a generic of the muscle relaxant Skelaxin. Read More
Mylan has further cemented its win in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline with a court order prohibiting GSK from providing an authorized generic version of the antidepressant Paxil to Mylan’s competitor Apotex. Read More
The FDA admonished Concordia Pharmaceuticals for a telephone sales pitch about its attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug Kapvay that omits critical risk and dosing information. Read More
Brand manufacturer Mayne Pharma and Warner Chilcott, U.S. marketer of Mayne’s acne drug Doryx, have moved to settle class action claims with third party purchasers that allege the two companies inappropriately delayed generic competition on the product. Read More
Baxter is voluntarily recalling four lots of intravenous solutions in response to customer complaints of plastic and fiber particles in the product, its fourth recall this year related to particulates. Read More
The FDA intends to step up its scrutiny of a company’s data integrity protections during manufacturing inspections, following a series of investigations that caught drugmakers backdating manufacturing records and falsifying data. Read More