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Latest News in Life Sciences

  • July 01, 2026

    Big Pharma Cos. Want 340B Drug Price FCA Suit Tossed

    Four major pharmaceutical companies Wednesday urged a California federal court to toss False Claims Act allegations revived by the Ninth Circuit claiming they filed false ceiling prices for drugs and overcharged entities covered by a federal discount program, saying the suit is precluded by the FCA's public disclosure bar.

  • July 01, 2026

    3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In July

    A patent owner's effort to undo a Texas jury verdict clearing Samsung of infringing a wireless patent and an appeal of a ruling that Dartmouth College and a supplement maker owe $9 million for filing an "unreasonable" vitamin patent suit are among the cases the Federal Circuit will hear this month.

  • July 01, 2026

    Gilead Owed $68M In Counterfeit Case, Magistrate Judge Says

    A New York federal magistrate judge has recommended awarding $68 million to biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. from a group of companies it accused of producing counterfeit HIV drugs that never answered the allegations.

  • July 01, 2026

    Gov't Officials Tout Unprecedented Healthcare Fraud Push

    It's been an unprecedented year for healthcare fraud enforcement, senior government officials from the U.S. Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services told conference attendees gathered in a ballroom Wednesday morning at the Midtown Hilton in Manhattan.

  • July 01, 2026

    Amgen Wins Order Blocking Colorado's Enbrel Price Cap

    Colorado is preliminarily blocked from enforcing its price cap on Amgen's rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the biotech company is likely to succeed on its claim that federal patent law preempts the state's effort to limit the price of patented medications.

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