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relied on a federal requirement that the distribution of those drugs be tightly
regulated because of their dangerous side effects under a program known as Risk
Evaluation and Mitigation System, or
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Angeles, said she pays $785 a month for Revlimid, a drug produced by Celgene that helps
treat her multiple myeloma. Emily Berl for The New York
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pays $785 a month for Revlimid, a drug produced by Celgene that helps treat her
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that helps treat her multiple myeloma. Emily Berl for The New York Times
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these programs to block or delay generic drug
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their drugs, citing REMS and demanding that generic drug companies provide written
confirmation from the F.D.A. permitting Celgene to provide drug samples. In the case of
Mylan, one of the generic drug companies that sued Celgene, this process took 19
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according to court documents in the Mylan case, these requests were laborious,
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repeat cycle for many of the generic drug companies, according to court documents. Two
companies, Lannett and Barr Laboratories, settled with Celgene. Mylan’s suit will
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the worst offender, †Michael Carrier, a professor at Rutgers Law School who studies
patent law, said of Celgene’s tactics to delay generic
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Menendez campaign has seen some troubling signs in recent polling. Despite maintaining
a six-point lead, a Quinnipiac poll in August found that 49 percent of New Jersey
voters believed that Mr. Menendez “was involved in serious
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