Experts suggest US FTC and DOJ retrospectively assess whether a merger gives companies increased leverage with PBMs and consider how it will impact vulnerable communities. Rutger’s Michael Carrier says there should be a presumption against mergers between two large firms.
Past anticompetitive conduct of pharmaceutical companies can signal potential problems with a proposed merger, experts acknowledged, suggesting that the US Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice consider such behavior a “plus factor” in their analysis of certain mergers.
During the second day of a two-day virtual workshop on pharmaceutical mergers, panelists discussed how a company’s prior “bad acts”...
The US FDA Commissioner pushed for a rebalancing of the US’s pharmaceutical supply chains while also stressing that there is a role for US-China commerce that would be risky to compromise.
A total of 748 key medicines are now affected by the four-month stock requirement, compared with 422 in 2021.
The UK regulator approved 16 medicines containing a new active substance in the first half of this year, while the European Commission issued marketing authorizations for 20 NAS-containing drugs.
Revised recommendation is based on most recent data on circulating strains in US, where KP.3 is now dominant. Novavax sticks with plans targeting the JN.1 ‘parent strain.’
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the US FDA’s changes to the COVID-19 vaccine indication and its revocation of the vaccine emergency use authorizations, as well as new vaccine coverage and reimbursement questions.
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