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Drugmaker Eli Lilly convinced a federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday to overturn a $176.5 million jury verdict for Teva Pharmaceutical that found Lilly’s migraine drug Emgality infringed three patents related to Teva’s rival drug Ajovy.

After nearly seven years, the company’s rare diseases arm Alexion has reached a settlement in an investors’ lawsuit over alleged unethical sales practices for its hemoglobinuria therapy Soliris.

A medical researcher has asked a court to throw out a lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson filed against her over her 2019 study on the links between cosmetic talc products and cancer, saying that her research is sound and protected by free speech rights.

The withdrawal came days after Astellas Pharma’s prostate cancer drug was spared from the first list of drugs that will be subject to Medicare price negotiations.

Novartis on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services, joining a growing list of industry heavy-hitters seeking to block the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program.

The case will be “withdrawn from adjudication” until Sept. 18, according to the filing, and this will allow the FTC to consider other avenues of resolving the matter, including a settlement.

AstraZeneca said on Friday it has sued the U.S. government to block parts of a program that gives the Medicare health insurance plan the power to negotiate lower drug prices.

AstraZeneca is facing two London lawsuits, including one from the husband of a woman who died after receiving the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine, in the first of potentially dozens of cases brought in England.

Boehringer Ingelheim sued the U.S. government in an attempt to block a program that gives the Medicare health insurance plan the power to negotiate lower drug prices, joining other drugmakers and business groups claiming that it would stifle development of new medicines.