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The FTC has lobbed its latest volley at pharmaceutical mergers with a request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily halt the pending $28 billion merger of Amgen and Horizon to allow time for the FTC’s June 22 administrative complaint to be adjudicated prior to potential consummation of the deal. Read More
The FTC is withdrawing two antitrust policy statements related to enforcement in healthcare markets that it says no longer reflect market realities at the same time it demonstrates its intentions by pursuing administrative actions against two pending mergers. Read More
Researchers from the Brookings Institution are calling for fresh incentives to improve manufacturing infrastructure and drug quality to reduce ongoing, persistent shortages of generic sterile injectables (GSIs). Read More
As the 118th Congress continues, FDAnews will track important pending legislation to keep you updated on regulations that could impact your business. Read More
Final guidance on a voluntary program for qualifying medical device development tools (MDDT) for the evaluation of devices regulated by CDRH has been reissued by the FDA with minor process clarifications. Read More
Following a fiery social media post, Johnson & Johnson has agreed to grant licenses to Stop TB Partnership’s global drug facilities to middle and low income countries to produce generic versions of its Sirturo (bedaquiline), the first new drug to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 50 years. Read More
Eli Lilly’s generic insulin Lispro can cost nearly four times as much as the company’s promised price of $25 per vial, according to a new report from Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn). Read More
With COVID-19 vaccines moving to the open market postpandemic, their manufacturers should remember the support they received from the federal government when setting prices, said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in an open letter to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers. Read More
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and three other chambers have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction preventing implementation of the Drug Price Negotiation Program in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) because it violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. Read More
The FTC will continue its ongoing examination of the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry at an open meeting July 20 when it decides whether to issue a warning to PBMs to stop relying on older FTC advocacy materials that opposed mandatory PBM transparency and disclosure requirements. Read More
Over the past week, the FDA has issued draft guidances on inborn errors of metabolism, clinical trial postmarketing studies and human cellular and gene therapy products. Read More
In an effort to improve adherence with postmarketing requirements (PMR), the FDA has laid out the circumstances under which noncompliance with PMRs is justified in a new draft guidance. Read More