The congressional finger-pointing at pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) continues. The latest singling out is in a bipartisan letter from four House members calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and hold PBMs accountable for the role they played in the nationwide opioid crisis.
Kiromic Biopharma Inc. and two former senior officials have settled with the U.S. SEC to resolve charges involving nondisclosure of U.S. FDA clinical holds on two cancer candidates before and after a July 2021 follow-on public offering that raised $40 million the company desperately needed.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Lorik Papyan, who pleaded guilty three years ago to one count of unlicensed wholesale distribution of prescription drugs, to pay Gilead Sciences Inc. nearly $32 million in restitution to cover lost profits due to a counterfeit HIV drug scheme he was involved in.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reined in a district court that invalidated three claims in an Astellas Pharma Inc. patent protecting bladder drug Myrbetriq (mirabegron) based on a issue that was never argued.
When the U.S. FTC filed suit Sept. 20 against the country’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their alleged use of rebates to artificially inflate U.S. insulin prices, it also put the three big insulin makers, and other drug manufacturers, on notice that they could be next.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit revived the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s (PhRMA) constitutional challenge to the Medicare price negotiations, sending it back to a federal court in Texas for a do-over.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reined in a district court that invalidated three claims in an Astellas Pharma Inc. patent protecting bladder drug Myrbetriq (mirabegron) based on a issue that was never argued.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. USA agreed Sept. 4 to pay $25 million, based on its ability to pay, to resolve the Department of Justice’s civil allegations that it conspired to fix the U.S. price of pravastatin, a generic drug used to treat high cholesterol.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. USA agreed Sept. 4 to pay $25 million, based on its ability to pay, to resolve the Department of Justice’s civil allegations that it conspired to fix the U.S. price of pravastatin, a generic drug used to treat high cholesterol.
Distinguishing between contract law and patent law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled against a Merck KGaA subsidiary, saying Ares Trading SA is still on the hook for paying royalties to a research partner through 2027 on sales of its cancer drug Bavencio (avelumab), a PD-L1 inhibitor granted accelerated approval in 2017 as a treatment for metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma.
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