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Mylan and three pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — must face a class-action lawsuit claiming that the drugmaker paid bribes and kickbacks to the three companies to ensure a monopoly market for EpiPen, a federal judge has ruled. Read More
What would have been the biggest patent verdict in history will not be reinstated in favor of Merck, after the Supreme Court Tuesday declined to hear the pharma giant’s last appeal. Read More
Maryland’s state Senate has voted to overrule Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a bill to fund the state’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB), an independent entity meant to cap prices for costly drugs in the state by 2022. Read More
The European Union (EU) and Canada will see temporary reductions in shipments of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as Pfizer upgrades its Belgian facility to meet a goal of producing 2 billion doses annually, raising concerns as global coronavirus cases surge. Read More
Medicare Part D pays twice as much on average for hundreds of drugs as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), mostly because VA negotiates prices directly with drugmakers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found in a new analysis. Read More
AstraZeneca (AZ), Sanofi and Eli Lilly have each filed lawsuits against HHS, arguing the federal government can’t force them to provide 340B drug discounts to contract pharmacies. Read More
FDA advisory committees recommended just 50 percent of the 18 new therapies and indications they reviewed in 2020, the lowest rate since 2007, and the agency seems to be reserving the panels for more problematic applications, according to Prevision Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm. Read More
Most of the 53 novel drugs approved by the FDA in 2020 were reviewed through at least one expedited approval process, the agency said in a report on the year. Read More
Internal European Medicines Agency (EMA) documents on pending approvals of COVID-19 vaccines were hacked and leaked online, the agency said last week. Read More