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1. FTC sues Hims for sharing sensitive health information, billing practices
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4. State Department releases $600M for global health group Gavi
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Hims and Hers deals with some intimate personal health matters, but the FTC alleges in a lawsuit that it isn't always great at keeping them confidential, Ngai Yeung writes. Meanwhile, Capricor's adcomm is still underway as it brings Phase 3 data to the fight for its DMD drug.

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Kevin Miller
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
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by Ngai Yeung

The Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion has sued Hims & Hers, al­leg­ing the tele­health com­pa­ny in­ap­pro­pri­ate­ly shared users’ health in­for­ma­tion with ad­ver­tis­ers and en­gaged in de­cep­tive billing...

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by Zachary Brennan

The FDA and Capri­cor Ther­a­peu­tics of­fered sharply op­posed in­ter­pre­ta­tions of clin­i­cal da­ta back­ing the com­pa­ny's po­ten­tial new cell ther­a­py for the rare and fa­tal Duchenne...

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Richard Francis, Teva CEO (Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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by Ayisha Sharma

Te­va is bet­ting it has enough room to ad­e­quate­ly pre­pare for steep tar­iffs the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion plans to slap on gener­ic drugs made out­side the...

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by Max Bayer

The US has fol­lowed through on its $600 mil­lion fund­ing com­mit­ment to Gavi, a glob­al vac­cine con­sor­tium, af­ter the funds were held in lim­bo for...

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Neil Vasan, former acting chair for the FDA's Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (NYU)
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by Zachary Brennan

Neil Vasan, act­ing chair of the FDA's On­co­log­ic Drugs Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, told End­points Newsthat he's stepped down from the com­mit­tee. He's par­tic­i­pat­ed in 22...

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