FTC Staffing Up For More Biopharma Merger Oversight
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Agency's 2011 budget request seeks to expand staff to monitor "increasingly complex" mergers and an "active merger enforcement agenda" in pharma and other key markets.
You may also be interested in...
FTC, Energized By Androgel, Presses For Patent Settlement Ban
In the swirling alliances of the health care reform debate, a press conference by FTC and House Democrats features a consumer who feels he was harmed by the deal between Solvay and generic firms.
Pharma Industry Watchdog Brill Nominated For FTC Commissioner
Julie Brill, as Vermont's Assistant Attorney General, headed state efforts to have drug companies disclose payments to physicians and to restrict use of data on physician prescribing habits for marketing.
FTC Approves the Pfizer-Wyeth Deal And Keeps Their Human Drug Portfolio Intact
The FTC requires Pfizer to divest half of Wyeth's animal health business but finds their human drug products, particularly for Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis, do not compete with each other.