FDA, FTC Promise United Effort to Fight Expensive Drugs

Getting generic drugs to market faster is one of the best ways to combat high prices, along with policing the industry for anticompetitive behavior, the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission said Nov. 8.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at an FTC-sponsored conference that his agency is rolling out several messages to brand drugmakers to smooth generic drug development. The FDA also issued a draft guidance on how drugmakers can share risk management systems to ensure safe use of prescriptions.

Gottlieb warned that his agency is on the lookout for brand drugmakers that deliberately ...