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09.02.2012 0:16:36

by
Brian J. Malkin


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On February 7, United States District Judge Amy Berman Jackson
granted defendant FDA's motion for summary judgment and denied plaintiff Sanofi-Aventis's ("Sanofi's") cross-motions in Sanofi's challenge of FDA's decision of a citizen petition filed by Sanofi regarding generic versions of Lovenox® (enoxaparin sodium injection), a blood thinning drug. As we reported
here in our coverage of FDA's response to Sanofi's citizen petition, Sanofi had requested that FDA withhold generic approvals until enoxaparin had been fully characterized, for any abbreviated new drug application ("ANDA") referencing Lovenox® that did not use an equivalent manufacturing process or did not show proof of equivalent safety and efficacy through clinical trials.

In that decision, FDA had concluded that enoxaparin had been adequately characterized to approve generic applications derived from natural sources and that five criteria would be sufficient to demonstrate "sameness" of enoxaparin in generic products compared to Lovenox®. In FDA's opinion, these elements would demonstrate sameness of enoxaparin, including its 1,6-anhydro ring structure, without (a) the need for a complete characterization of all of the different polysaccharides of exoxaparin, (b) using the same manufacturing processes by Sanofi, or (c) clinical trial data to demonstrate safety and efficacy. FDA's administrative record showed later, however, that while the Office of Generic Drugs ("OGD") supported this five-part test, the Office of New Drug Quality Assessment ("ONDQA") thought that the test was insufficient and the only way to demonstrate enoxaparin sameness was to fully characterize all of the different polysaccharides of enoxaparin.

Following FDA's decision on the citizen petition, FDA approved Novartis's/Sandoz's version and Sanofi filed a complaint that included a motion for a temporary retraining order ("TRO") and preliminary injunction ("PI") to prevent the sale of Sandoz's version and have FDA withdraw approval of Sandoz's version. Since then, the District Court consolidated and denied Sanofi's TRO/PI motion, based on the Court's finding that Sanofi was unlikely to success in its three claims. When these same claims were reviewed by the Court as part of FDA's motion for summary judgment, the Court concluded that all of Sanofi's contentions could be answered in terms of statutory construction:

  1. the FDA acted within its statutory authority when it called for Sandoz to file immunogenicity data as part of its ANDA;

  2. it did not unlawfully depart from agency precedent by approving a generic before the listed drug had been fully characterized; and

  3. it reasonably found that the active in the generic drug was the same as the active ingredient in Lovenox.

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07.02.2012 22:04:28

As a result of increasing concerns associated with the
use of Actos® medication, manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals has been forced to cut its work force. The company announced on January 18, 2011 that 2,800 jobs within the United States and in Europe will be cut as the result of decreasing sales. The company has also purchased Swiss drug company, Nycomed.

The company expects that sales will continue to drop as concerns with Actos increase and the introduction of generic versions of Actos enter the market. They have made plans to cut jobs slowly over the course of four years.

This reduction in Takeda’s workforce will represent about 9% of the company but is expected to help the company save $1.7 billion by March of 2016.

The FDA approved Actos for the treatment of type II diabetes in July of 1999. This once a day pill was designed to aid the body’s sensitivity to insulin and accrued sales of $4.3 billion for Takeda Pharmaceuticals in 2010. However, these sales quickly dropped after concerns associated with Actos were actively reported to the FDA.

Generic versions of Actos medication are expected to be released by August of 2013, further reducing sales dollars for Takeda.

Victims who have taken Actos claim that Actos causes bladder cancer and allege that Takeda failed to properly issue sufficient warnings to patients and the medical community.

In September of 2010, the FDA began to review safety concerns of Actos due to interim data from an ongoing ten year study that revealed a link between
Actos and bladder cancer. The agency mandated updated warning labels for Actos in the U.S. and the health regulating agency in Europe also mandated new warning labels as well.

Actos lawyers continue to pursue compensation for individuals who have suffered bladder cancer injuries after taking Actos.

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08.02.2012 22:29:00
News and Announcements updated

09.02.2012 0:02:51
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 -- More Americans are buying the generic forms of medications, and this practice has made their prescriptions more affordable, according to a new report. But even though some out-of-pocket drug costs may have declined, paying for...

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09.02.2012 0:00:06
Americans are using more prescription drugs, but the financial burden of those drugs on families is falling, according to a new study. A big reason is the rise of generics.





07.02.2012 23:01:00
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08.02.2012 18:55:21
As employee benefit budgets remain tight, employers are adopting plan design changes that reduce drug benefit coverage and improve pricing, according to the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute.

09.02.2012 21:28:20

Jason Reitman's Young Adult is only the latest in a long line of films which portray authors as helpless, or vindictive, or both

In Jason Reitman's film
Young Adult
, released last week, Mavis Geary (Charlize Theron) returns to her midwest hometown to stalk a high school boyfriend, prompted by an email, with a picture of a newborn daughter, that shows him to be happily married. Mistakenly convinced he must nevertheless be still in love with her, she suffers a series of humiliations. Deluded, washed-up, twisted, alcoholic, she is also – it almost goes without saying, given Hollywood's stereotypes – a blocked writer, the movie taking its title from the generic novels she produces.

Here we go again, connoisseurs of cinema's portraits of fictional novelists may say. Two Stephen King adaptations,
The Shining
and
Misery
, offer extreme versions of two recurring types of writer. In the former, Jack Nicholson gradually becomes psychotic, eventually attacking his wife, as he tries to write in a deserted hotel; in the latter, James Caan's novelist is imprisoned by a fan, who inflicts lasting injuries on him and forces him to destroy his next novel's typescript.

A successful writer humbled is also at the centre of the Fay Weldon adaptation
She-Devil
, where romantic novelist Meryl Streep's lovely life gradually unravels (with the viewer expected to cheer each new setback) after she pairs off with Roseanne Barr's husband. Similarly persecuted, though this time seemingly by fate, is Woody Allen's Harry Block in
Deconstructing Harry
, who begins the film being angrily accused by a suicidal ex-lover of using their affair in his latest book, and ends it arrested for kidnapping and gun and drug possession.

More common are monsters and obnoxious egotists, such as Nicholson's misanthropic author with OCD in
As Good As It Gets
, Jeff Daniels's nasty, student-shagging novelist in
The Squid and the Whale
, and Roger Allam's arrogant, wife-exploiting crime writer and pursuer of younger bedmates in
Tamara Drewe
. And some, such as Sharon Stone's icepick-wielding serial killer in
Basic Instinct
or Laurence Olivier's mystery writer in
Sleuth
, are dangerous criminals.

In recent biopics, real writers are portrayed in the grip of mental illness, old age or/and waning powers, from
Iris
to
The Hours
to
The Last Station
. Such sympathetic treatment is rarely extended to invented ones, who are typically objects of ridicule or loathing in comedies of different degrees of blackness. Is this one faction of the writing community (screenwriters) abusing another (novelists), perhaps irritated by their greater prestige? Hard to tell. But it's significant that these movies often close with a suggestion of regret for their punitive plotting, giving the protagonists happy or happy-ish endings. Nicholson's misanthrope and Paul Giammati's thirsty would-be writer in
Sideways
are awarded girlfriends, and
Young Adult
finishes ambiguously but with a hint that a chastened Mavis is at last near to adulthood.



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08.02.2012 18:55:21
Catalyst Health Solutions Inc said it will buy Walgreen Co's pharmacy benefits management unit for about $525 million in cash, a deal that might spur more consolidation before big generic drug launches that could boost the business.

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