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To List or Not to List; That is the Question – The FTC Signals the Potential for Greater Scrutiny of Patent Information Submissions to FDA

FDA Law

The six-page statement explains that “Brand drug manufacturers may be harming generic competition through the improper listing of patents in the. That Policy Statement , issued on September 14, 2023, warns companies that improper listing of patents in the Orange Book could be “ an unfair method of competition in violation of the FTC Act ”.

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A New Report Takes an Evidence-Based Approach to Analyzing the BLOCKING Act

FDA Law

As a result, fewer generic drug manufacturers are likely to make the significant investment needed to challenge patent estates on expensive brand-name drugs, even when those challenges could have been successful or resulted in favorable settlements. 2853 , or “BLOCKING Act”), the “ Expanding Access to Low-Cost Generics Act of 2021 ” ( S.

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Arsenicum album for Kerala school students: a bogus prophylaxis

Tiny Physician

One trial was conducted to find whether it is effective in fever on children post-DPT vaccination, another one on neonatal calf diarrhea (an animal study), and the last one on its effect on patients with Arsenic toxicity (4). However, there is no clinical trial on its effect on COVID 19 infection or its complications. Dipankar et.

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FDA Approves First State Drug Importation Program Under 20-Year-Old Statute, But High Hurdles Remain

FDA Law

After its enactment in 2003, successive administrations thwarted its implementation by declining to certify to Congress that importation will pose no additional risk to public health and safety and will result in a significant reduction in cost to American consumers, as the statute requires. See 21 C.F.R. 251.5; § 251.6(c).