Legal
In their first appearance in years, the notorious Sackler family, who previously headed OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, apologized to victims of the opioid crisis but stopped short of admitting personal responsibility during a nearly four-hour grilling from the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee.
Documents related to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech that were in possession of the European Medicines Agency have been accessed by hackers.
Due to the registration potential of the mid-stage studies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested the company complete a standard safety study, which amounts to a partial clinical hold on the study.
As if attempting to steal hard-won research wasn’t bad enough, hackers are now hitting people where it really hurts – with e-documents containing malicious code embedded in false offers of employment.
Guardant Health is taking Roche-owned Foundation Medicine to court over a patent dispute for their liquid biopsy technology, further heating up the rivalry between the two cancer detection companies.
Days after Purdue Pharma reached a combined $8.4 billion criminal and civil settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the OxyContin drugmaker pleaded guilty to three criminal charges to resolve its role in the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States.
Two months after he was stepped down from the role of chief executive officer of Legend Biotech, Fangliang “Frank” Zhang has been arrested for smuggling genetic resources from the People’s Republic of China.
Parker H. “Pete” Petit, the former chief executive officer of wound care company MiMedx was convicted of fraud and making false statements to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, following a months-long investigation into the company’s financial records. William Taylor, the company’s former chief operating officer, was also found guilty.
A settlement valued at $8.34 billion was reached between Purdue Pharma and the Justice Department on Tuesday, which required the drug company to plead guilty to three felonies related to its marketing and distribution of OxyContin.
Sanofi was formally charged over Depakine, its epilepsy drug, for not taking action when they first discovered the fetal risks when taken by pregnant women.
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