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Latest News in Life Sciences
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December 01, 2025
Bristol-Myers Must Face Trimmed $6.7B Celgene Investor Suit
A Manhattan federal judge Monday trimmed UMB Bank's lawsuit accusing Bristol-Myers Squibb of slow-walking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval process for three drugs to avoid paying shareholders $6.7 billion owed from its 2019 acquisition of Celgene Corp.
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December 01, 2025
Hospitals Slam HHS' Move From Drug Discounts To Rebates
The American Hospital Association is leading litigation challenging the Trump administration's abrupt changes to a decades-old program governing the distribution of discounted prescriptions to low-income patients, telling a Maine federal court Monday that the government is unlawfully ignoring the costly impacts a rebate system will have on hospitals.
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December 01, 2025
1st Circ. Tosses Omni's Medicare Fraud Suit Over UTI Tests
A First Circuit panel declined to revive Omni Healthcare's False Claims Act suit accusing MD Labs of billing Medicare for unnecessary urinary tract infection tests, explaining in a published opinion Monday that Omni Healthcare's own staff ordered each test — sometimes even replacing doctors' orders for cheaper tests with the pricier ones.
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December 01, 2025
Merck Wants Fed. Circ. Redo On Decision Backing Axed IP
German drugmaker Merck has asked the Federal Circuit to rethink its decision upholding the invalidation of claims in two patents on the blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Mavenclad, saying the ruling creates a rule where inventors' work can later be used against them.
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December 01, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Anti-Abortion Groups' Free Speech Rights
New York Attorney General Letitia James can't sue faith-based groups promoting a so-called treatment to reverse medication-induced abortions, finding the groups are likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment challenge, the Second Circuit said Monday.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Drug and medical device lobbying
- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Drug and medical device recalls
- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Patent disputes, including
- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
Readership
- Life sciences lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals