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Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: A ‘colossal financial fraud’: Gilead to get $33 million from a clinic for exploiting its HIV patient assistance program

Health Nicholas Florko

Court rules Juul can temporarily keep selling e-cigarettes while it prepares challenge to FDA ban

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: The Biden administration wants to get tough on states’ abortion pill restrictions. It won’t be easy

Special Report Andrew Joseph

To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: European Commission investigates Vifor for ‘disparaging’ its only rival in iron deficiency market

Exclusive Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: A ‘veritable playground’: CVS whistleblower details how patients were charged higher drug prices

First Opinion Cynthia M. Ho

IP nationalism: the unexamined issue underlying the controversial WTO vaccine proposal and beyond

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: The FTC says it’s getting tougher on hospital consolidation. Antitrust experts aren’t buying it

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Florida hospital system sues religious sharing ministry over unpaid medical claims

First Opinion Maureen Testoni

Pursuit of profits is driving drug companies to break the 340B law

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Former Lilly manager files whistleblower lawsuit over manufacturing failures at production plant

First Opinion Susan Hatters Friedman, Renee Sorrentino and Karen B. Rosenbaum

In Depp v. Heard, forensic psychiatry took the stand. Let’s correct the record

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Justice Department says sweeping lab test fraud in Texas involved dozens of doctors and front companies

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Italian authorities fine drugmaker for ‘excessive’ pricing of a rare disease drug

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Former AstraZeneca executive accused of insider trading over Daiichi cancer drug deal

Pharmalot Ed Silverman and Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: While a law designed to thwart counterfeit medicines lurches into full force, fake pills keep circulating

Biotech Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Guardant accuses Illumina of ‘brazen’ attempt to quash competition in ongoing legal battle

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Employers sue Advocate Aurora Health over alleged anticompetitive hospital contracts

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pfizer to refund $290,000 to consumers in four states over misleading copay coupons

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Cancer coalition aims to boost access to meds in poor countries; Moderna’s vaccine patent defense poses shield for others

Health Olivia Goldhill

Vague ‘medical emergency’ exceptions in abortion laws leave pregnant people in danger, doctors say

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Drugmakers win court battle over an HHS rule that would have penalized them for offering copay coupons

Health Olivia Goldhill

Psychedelic medicine group investigating a board member accused of financial elder abuse

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Greece plans to go to court to seek compensation from Novartis over a bribery scandal

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Advocate Aurora-Atrium’s mammoth merger: Experts split on whether federal regulators will challenge the deal

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J sues a behind-the-scenes company for exploiting its patient assistance program

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Investors reject proposals for Covid vaccine makers to share know-how; CMS head says Alzheimer’s drug decision is rare

Business Bob Herman

The doctor who is trying to bring back surprise billing

Insurance Tara Bannow

Federal antitrust case against Sutter Health headed for appeal