Don’t like a court order? Sidestep it. That seems to be the idea behind U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy’s latest changes to his renewal of the charter for the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Do state laws requiring drug companies to give steep 340B drug discounts to an unlimited number of contract pharmacies, with no claims data required, interfere with a longstanding contract between the U.S. Congress and biopharma? Or do such laws merely flex states’ authority over pharmacy practices such as delivery?
On top of prison sentences, loss of assets and a $2.6 million restitution order issued several years ago, Li Chen and Yu Zhou had their naturalized U.S. citizenship revoked March 30 as a consequence of stealing exosome-related trade secrets from Nationwide Children's Hospital's Research Institute in Ohio – the hospital that had sponsored them when they first came to the U.S. from China on H-1B Specialty Occupation visas.
