Legal

A controversial decision by the Alabama Supreme Court temporarily chilled IVF before igniting nationwide pushes to protect access to this type of fertility treatment, leaving drugmakers with questions.
A federal court in Delaware ruled Friday that the pharma company had no “entitlement” to any price above what the buyer is willing to pay.
Amid the dual crises of worsening medicine quality and growing drug shortages, the FDA plans to increase inspections of Indian manufacturing facilities this year, Reuters reported Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice has slapped BioMarin Pharmaceutical with a subpoena in connection with its sponsored testing programs for the rare disease therapies Vivizim and Naglazyme.
Despite a patent extension, Merck’s muscle relaxant reversal injection is now facing potential generic competition from Hikma Pharmaceuticals, which is seeking the FDA’s approval for a copycat version.
The settlement, which includes an upfront $75 million payment to Gavi, ends arbitration related to a 2021 advance purchase agreement involving Novavax’s prototype vaccine NVX-CoV2373.
With the departure of AbbVie and AstraZeneca from the trade group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has named new members to its leadership including Gilead Sciences chief Daniel O’Day.
The litigation alleges the regulator allowed its competitor Liquidia to skirt FDA precedents by amending an already pending NDA to add a PH-ILD indication instead of filing a new application.
A federal judge in New Jersey has agreed to hear legal challenges from BMS, J&J, Novartis and Novo Nordisk to the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program during the same March 7 hearing.
The Icelandic biotech Thursday said that it has settled its grievances with Johnson & Johnson regarding its Stelara biosimilar in markets with regulatory approval.
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