FTC lawsuit claims drug middlemen are manipulating insulin market
Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — have ...
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FTC sues insulin middlemen, saying they pocket billions while patients face high costs
The Federal Trade Commission said pharmacy benefit managers created a "perverse drug rebate system" that artificially ...
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FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations
A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who’s followed the space.
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Express Scripts sues FTC over report blasting pharmacy middlemen
Express Scripts, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Tuesday and demanded the agency retract a report saying the industry middlemen ...
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FTC says social networks’ data privacy, safety policies are ‘woefully inadequate’
Top social media and video streaming companies are facing new scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which released a report Thursday morning accusing the platforms of vastly violating ...
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Tandem t:slim X2 Insulin Pump Now Compatible with Lyumjev Ultra-rapid Acting Insulin in European Union
SAN DIEGO, September 19, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNDM), a leading insulin delivery and diabetes technology company, today announced that its t:slim X2 insulin ...
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FTC needs public Input, thorough testing before overhauling car-buying process
Based on flawed evidence, the FTC claims that the rule would save more than $12.3 billion over 10 years and save an estimated 2 hours per transaction when shopping for vehicles. Still, an ...
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FTC Chief Lina Khan Says Her Tough Antitrust Stance “Uncomfortable For Some People” As Election Looms
Kahn, who became FTC chief in 2021 at age 34, declined to comment on the presidential campaign, but told a New York conference, “I think it’s true that, over decades, enforcement has not ...
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Express Scripts sues FTC over report damning pharmacy benefit managers
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the FTC to withdraw the report, and recuse FTC Chair Lina Khan from further action against Express Scripts. “We don’t take this step lightly ...
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Is the FTC War on Fake Reviews Doomed to Fail?
FTC consumer protections have always required the disclosure of paid advertising, and on paper, they’re supposed to protect honest reviewers from litigation for negative review. But the new final ...
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Social media companies, video streaming services engage in "vast surveillance" of users, FTC says
The findings highlight how the companies compile and store troves of info on both users and non-users, with some failing to comply with deletion requests, the FTC said. "The report lays out how ...
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Sweeping FTC study finds that social media sites engage in ‘vast surveillance’ of its users
The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The organization said that many social media sites and streaming services engage in ...