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FDA Tells Congress What It Wants, What it Really Really Wants (it really really really wants a zigazig-ah)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the extraordinary focus on drug pricing in the last decade, generic competition—FDA’s only real way to have an effect on drug pricing—tops this year’s list. FDA believes this change would effectuate timelier and more cost-efficient generic drug development.”

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Educating Patients about Generic Drugs: Strategies for Success

Drug Patent Watch

Generic drugs are pharmaceutical products that contain the same active ingredients as their brand-name counterparts. They’re designed to be bioequivalent, meaning they have the same dosage, strength, route of administration, quality, and intended use as the original brand-name drug. Food and Drug Administration.

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Price Limits, Affordability Boards, Penalties, Oh My: Minnesota Enacts Sweeping Drug Pricing Reforms

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Kirschenbaum — On May 24, Minnesota enacted the Commerce and Consumer Protection Omnibus Bill, Senate File 2744 ( SF 2744 ), which significantly expands the state’s existing drug pricing activities with serious implications for all drug manufacturers, and particularly generic drug manufacturers.

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Court Grants Summary Judgment Ending AstraZeneca’s Lawsuit Challenging the IRA

Big Molecule Watch

Today, the district court for the District of Delaware (Judge Connolly) granted the government’s motion for summary judgment on all claims brought by AstraZeneca in its Complaint challenging the Drug Price Negotiation Program of the IRA. There are now seven remaining lawsuits challenging the Drug Price Negotiation Program of the IRA.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment. Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies.

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The Fourth Circuit Upholds CMS’ Definition of “Line-Extension Drug” and “New Formulation”

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Under the Medicaid Drug Rebate statute, a pharmaceutical manufacturer whose drug prices increase faster than the rate of inflation must pay additional per-unit rebates to the program. NDA or BLA drugs). Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servs., 23-1457 (4th Cir.

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Happy 40th Anniversary Hatch-Waxman! We’re Celebrating By Providing Access to a New Archive

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Hatch Foundation’s For cheap generic drug prices, you can thank 40 years of Hatch-Waxman We Work For Health’s Hatch-Waxman Act: Celebrating 40 Years of a Balanced and Innovative Drug Ecosystem Tradeoffs’ Race to the Bottom Series FDA CDER Conversations – 40th Anniversary of the Generic Drug Approval Pathway The U.S.

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