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Agency Actions, Trade Deals, and Other Initiatives to Further Executive Order Goals for the Pharma Industry

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The Trump administration has issued numerous pharma-focused executive orders, including “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First,” “Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines,”...more

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FTC Holds Its First Listening Session on Practices and Regulations Impacting Pharmaceutical Generic or Biosimilar Competition

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On June 30, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the first of three listening sessions focused on ways to lower Americans’ drug prices through competition. The panels are being held as...more

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Embattled Biotechs Facing Uncertainty at the FDA Look to Collaborative Deal Structures

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Biotechs have faced several challenging years with slumping valuations and a competitive funding environment. However, the latest slew of retirements and layoffs at the FDA could present their greatest challenge yet....more

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Teva and Alvotech Announce FDA Approval of Interchangeability for SELARSDI (ustekinumab-aekn) with STELARA (ustekinumab)

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On May 5, 2025, Teva and Alvotech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved SELARSDI (ustekinumab-aekn) injection as an interchangeable biosimilar to the reference product STELARA (ustekinumab)....more

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Executive Order Seeks to Eliminate Discrepancies in Drug Pricing Between United States and Other Countries

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President Trump’s highly publicized executive order 14297, titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients,” targets the discrepancy in drug pricing in the United States compared with...more

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Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines

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President Trump’s May 5, 2025, executive order titled “Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines” sets out the administration’s goals to increase the domestic manufacture of critical...more

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Conditional Approval Proposals for FDA: Current Context and Potential Ramifications

Drug approval is unequivocally the linchpin to any drug development effort and, given the role of the US market in the global marketplace, the drug approval standard employed by FDA remains a perennial focus of stakeholders...more

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New Mexico Becomes Third State in the U.S. to Legalize Access to Psilocybin

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On April 7, 2025, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law SB-219, the Medical Psilocybin Act (the Act), making New Mexico the third state in the country to create a legal pathway for patients to access...more

Morgan Lewis - As Prescribed

FDA’s Recent Guidance on Accelerated Approval and Implications for Rare Diseases

In honor of Rare Disease Day on February 28, 2025, we will publish a series of posts throughout the month on As Prescribed and Health Law Scan, focusing on issues impacting the rare disease community....more

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Silent Dangers: The Link Between Depo-Provera, Brain Tumors, and Health Inequities

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For decades, Depo-Provera has been presented as a game-changing contraceptive—a quick injection every three months that promised simplicity and effectiveness. For millions of women worldwide, it seemed like the perfect...more

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Tirzepatide Shortage Resolved

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On October 3, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its shortage categorization of tirzepatide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medication, marking the shortage as “resolved” for all presentations of the...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

What’s it to You? Justice Scalia’s 41-Year-Old Gatekeeping Question on “Standing” Influences Court to Uphold FDA’s Regulation of...

Mifepristone is safe for now. On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the plaintiffs — doctors and medical associations alike — lacked standing to challenge 2000 and 2019 FDA approvals of mifepristone (brand...more

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Supreme Court Abortion Pill Ruling Doesn't Challenge FDA's Authority

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The U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 2024, unanimously ruled that plaintiffs did not have legal standing to challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) actions to establish dosing and availability requirements for...more

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SCOTUS Unanimously Preserves Access to Abortion Pill

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On Thursday, June 13, the Supreme Court maintained access to the abortion pill, mifepristone. This medication, in conjunction with misoprostol, was used in nearly two-thirds of all U.S. abortion and miscarriage treatments...more

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Client Alert: Access to Mifepristone Still Standing for Now, but Questions Remain

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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Justice Kavanaugh wrote for a unanimous Court dismissing the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine from the case for lack of...more

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Client Alert: The Supreme Court Signals That Access to Mifepristone Will Likely Remain Safe for Now

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On March 26, 2024, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the two consolidated cases concerning access to mifepristone pending before the Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Case No. 23-235 and Danco Laboratories,...more

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First At-Home Artificial Insemination Kit Receives FDA Clearance

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Mosie Baby, a Texas-based fertility care company, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its over-the-counter intravaginal insemination kit.  The kit was developed for those who are unable to...more

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The FDA Approves Two New Gene Therapies for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

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On December 8, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two new gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease. The first, Casgevy™ (exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel)), is the first-ever approved...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules to Reinstate Abortion Pill Restrictions

Nearly three months after hearing oral arguments, a divided Fifth Circuit panel issued its decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, upholding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) underlying approval of...more

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First Nonprescription Birth Control Pill Approved for Marketing by FDA: A Milestone for Reproductive Health

As we previously reported, Perrigo Company’s subsidiary HRA Pharma submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the summer of 2022 to switch an existing prescription-only progestin birth control pill...more

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New FDA Draft Guidance Updates Recommendations for Good Clinical Practices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published a draft of its updated Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidance for modernizing clinical trials. The draft guidance will be open for public comment for 60 days from...more

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Reproductive Health: Over the Counter Birth Control Pill Supported by FDA Advisory Committees

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At the May 9-10, 2023, Joint Meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisers voted that the...more

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Contradictory Court Opinions Leave the Approval of Abortion Medication in Question

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On April 7, 2023, two federal judges in Texas and Washington State issued dueling opinions about the abortion medication Mifepristone, just hours apart. These two decisions come in the midst of growing tension about abortion...more

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Access to Abortion Pill in Limbo: Navigating the Intricacies of Conflicting Federal Court Rulings in Texas and Washington State

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, has been curtailed following dueling federal court decisions in Texas and Washington. Just days after a Texas...more

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Challenge to the FDA's Approval of Abortion Medication

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On Friday, April 7, both the Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Washington issued decisions impacting the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The Texas decision...more

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