In charges announced Monday, the agency says Vyera Pharmaceuticals - formerly Turing Pharma - used deals with distributors to prevent generic companies from obtaining samples and sales data for Daraprim. Vyera called the charges meritless.
The Federal Trade Commission had accused Illumina of seeking to monopolize the market for next-generation sequencing in its effort to acquire Pacific Biosciences, originally announced in November 2018.
Richard Fu details the company's approach to nutrition therapy and strategy for patients using GLP-1s.
Federal regulators said they would seek to block the acquisition deal amid concerns that Illumina was seeking to eliminate PacBio as a competitor in the next-generation sequencing space.
The Federal Trade Commission and its U.K. counterpart concluded that Roche would not likely have an incentive to delay or discontinue development of Spark's hemophilia A gene therapy. Roche markets a monoclonal antibody for the same disease.
Bristol-Myers Squibb said Celgene would sell the drug, Otezla (apremilast), to Amgen. The pharmaceutical company had said it would seek a divestment of the drug to satisfy competition concerns from the FTC.
According to the FTC, Simple Health Plans and its subsidiaries collected more than $100 million through deceptive marketing and sales practices that left many people stuck with thousands in unpaid medical costs.
Dickon Waterfield discusses why Lantern's navigation works.
FDA said it will ease up vetting general health and wellness apps, but it will scrutinize clinical applications and devices. Does this mean the FTC will step up?
Healthcare needs to recognize that enforcement action will continue, and compliance should be a key business objective.
Health data is very much on the mind of Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, according to an interview published over the weekend in the Washington Post.
It’s National Consumer Protection Week, so an infographic by Laird Technologies highlighting some of the security challenges with the Internet of Things seems appropriate. The infographic highlights both consumer technologies such as fitness wearables and apps that connect to homes to do tasks such as remotely adjusting home thermostats and enterprise technology, such as medical […]
Sheila Bond, MD, talked about the latest trends regarding integration of AI in healthcare.
Marketers behind so called melanoma detection apps MelApp and Mole Detective have agreed to a Federal Trade Commission settlement that bars them from making claims that these apps could detect melanoma symptoms, even in its early stages, according to a statement on the regulator’s website. It also levied a fine on the companies. The actions […]
It’s been a few weeks since the Federal Trade Commission gave Consumer Electronics Show attendees a preview of an upcoming report on the Internet of Things. The published report is the product of a workshop held just over one year ago looking at different aspects of cybersecurity and data privacy, including how consumers’ health data […]
For companies in the evolving subsector of consumer health devoted to helping people concentrate or relax their minds there’s a new issue likely to get their undivided attention. The Federal Trade Commission has singled out Focus Education for making what it calls unsubstantiated claims for its computer game, including that it “permanently improves” children’s focus, […]