{"id":10454,"date":"2018-05-18T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10454"},"modified":"2018-05-18T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:28:05","slug":"fda-calls-out-39-drug-companies-for-allegedly-blocking-access-to-generics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10454","title":{"rendered":"FDA calls out 39 drug companies for allegedly blocking access to generics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erin Mershon for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Celgene, and Gilead Life Sciences are all potentially blocking generic drug makers from accessing samples of their products, along with three dozen other drug companies \u2014 according to new data out Thursday from the FDA intended to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/05\/14\/fda-generic-drugs-withholding-samples\/\">publicly shame<\/a>\u00a0them for what it calls \u201cgaming tactics.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/05\/17\/fda-shames-drug-companies-generics-access\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=3892c7d8cc-Pharmalot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-3892c7d8cc-149624405\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erin Mershon for STAT) Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Celgene, and Gilead Life Sciences are all potentially blocking generic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10455,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10454\/revisions\/10455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}