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In an effort to enhance collaboration, the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) recently proposed that a more formal preferred partnership between the U.S. and India can not only lower drug prices in the U.S. but can improve...more
This is the sixth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are soliciting public comments on the root causes of and potential solutions to drug shortages. The request for information (RFI)...more
In a recent opinion piece in Newsweek, Dr. Rahul Tiwari asserts that pharmaceutical companies in India have an opportunity to supplant China's dominant position in producing active pharmaceutical ingredients ("API's") and...more
Health care was one of the most active issue areas in 2023 and this trend is expected to continue when Congress returns in the New Year for the second session of the 118th Congress. The activity by the health committees of...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to take steps implementing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). Newly revised guidance issued on December 14, 2023, makes notable changes and clarifications...more
I'm not saying that anyone from the Biden administration was reading my blog post last week on drug shortages, and maybe it's just a coincidence that the White House announced new efforts to strengthen supply chains less than...more
5 When our children were young, we started a tradition at Thanksgiving of going around the table and having each of us (around 20 with extended family) saying what we were thankful for. Of course, you hear a lot of being...more
As drug shortages are once again front-page crises news, demanding drastic action by FDA—currently with a particular focus on sterile, injectable platinum-based chemotherapy drugs—a refresher on the scope of FDA’s tools to...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) recently published a White Paper laying out a framework to evaluate the Quality Management...more
As we have previously reported, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minister of Health had made interim orders pursuant to the Food and Drugs Act to address the significant risk to health posed by shortages in 2020 and...more
On September 1, 2021, Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Drugs and Medical Devices (Shortages) (the “Regulations”) were published in Part II of the Canada Gazette. These amendments are intended to provide...more
The pandemic has spared no industry. As fast-food chains have sought to drive business through chicken sandwich wars, Burger King’s release of its chicken sandwich was delayed in Michigan due to a shortage of pickle jars....more
On June 8, 2021, four Executive Branch Departments issued reports mandated by President Biden’s February 24, 2021 Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains (the “America’s Supply Chains E.O.” or the “E.O.”). The E.O....more
UPDATE: The Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Drugs and Medical Devices (Shortages) were published in the Canada Gazette on September 1, 2021. These amendments are intended to provide Health Canada with...more
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis—infecting more than 2.7 million people worldwide, with almost 870,000 cases in the United States alone as of the writing of this article—has thrown nearly every industry into chaos as the...more