Congressional hearings on the recent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases offered a positive theme for the industry during the ongoing drug pricing debate.

Court denies JHL motion to dismiss trade secret theft suit, bars development or sale of biosimilars that rely on information from Genentech documents; trial scheduled to begin in November 2020.

Clonal neoantigen immunotherapy developer Achilles Therapeutics tells the Pink Sheet how the regulatory landscape for advanced therapies might not be as tricky as it used to be.

Draft guidances reflect the agency’s thinking on when patients with HIV/hepatitis infection, brain metastasis, organ dysfunction or prior malignancies, as well as pediatric patients, should be enrolled in cancer trials; FDA also finalizes recommendations on adolescent enrollment in adult studies of oncology drugs.

Faced with a proposed regulation that aims to eliminate rebates and an upcoming hearing on Capitol Hill, US pharmacy benefit managers including OptumRx are working to validate the concept of rebates when redirected to patients at the point-of-sale. 

Amgen seeks a preliminary injunction to halt US sales by Cipla and says it will take steps to stop Piramal’s sales; in its antitrust lawsuit, Cipla alleges Amgen paid to license Teva products under the companies’ patent settlement, which resulted in Teva pulling its generic off the market shortly after launch.

Assessing how closely GSK's OTC brands including Panadol compete with Pfizer's Robitussin and other OTC brands is the aim of investigation by Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission into the pharma giants' proposed consumer health joint venture. ACCC states particular interest in importance of Panadol, Voltaren and Advil brands, and whether GSK and Pfizer compete closely in supply of pain relief, gastrointestinal and cold and flu relief products.

Drug compounding pharmacy Guardian Pharmacy Services was ordered to stop manufacturing sterile drugs after ignoring quality problems for too long, bringing to two the number of decrees the Justice Department has filed against drug compounding pharmacies so far this year, which at the current rate may exceed the two consent decrees filed in all of calendar year 2018. The action follows reports that patients administered eye injections of a drug compounded by Guardian during cataract surgery developed vision impairment.

The US, one of ICH’s original three member authorities, was spurned in favor of Canada for the pharmaceutical regulatory harmonization initiative’s next meeting in the region because of some participants’ difficulties obtaining US visas.