Recon: Pfizer says vaccine neutralizes Omicron after three doses; FTC settles with Vyera over Daraprim practices

• Pfizer, BioNTech vaccine neutralises Omicron with three shots (Reuters) (STAT)
• Studies suggest Pfizer shot may protect only partially against Omicron (Reuters)
• Pfizer will submit full data on Covid treatment pill to the FDA in a few days, CEO says (CNBC)
• AbbVie settles New York opioid case as trial winds down (Reuters)
• U.S. FTC settles with Vyera over Daraprim, Shkreli trial still on (Reuters) (STAT)
• New Mexico to join nationwide opioid settlement with drug distributors (Reuters)
• Elizabeth Holmes denies misleading investors in trial testimony (Reuters)
• Biogen’s reckoning: How the Aduhelm debacle pushed a troubled company and its fractured leadership to the brink (STAT)
• Judge blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors (Politico)
• Lawmakers rush to avert looming Medicare cuts (Politico)

• EU expects Europe plants to produce 3.6 billion COVID shots in 2022 (Reuters)
• S.African health regulator SAHPRA approves Pfizer's booster shots (Reuters)
• Indian vaccine makers bank on boosters as demand crashes (Reuters)
• India's SII to halve output of AstraZeneca vaccine as demand sinks - CNBC-TV18 (Reuters)
• Cancer drug specialist Clinigen latest big UK firm to be taken private (The Guargian)
• Independent Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in health publishes opinion on European solidarity in public health emergencies (EC)

• ‘It’s a sore spot’: Why officials are raising questions about Biden’s vaccine donations (Politico)
• Analysis: Omicron is a wake-up call for COVID-19 vaccine developers (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Up to 1 million COVID vaccines expired in Nigeria last month (Reuters)
• Pharmacies slammed with COVID-19 vaccine demand (The Hill)
• TGA approves booster doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, SPIKEVAX (TGA)

• Teligent, Edge Pharma yank meds on superpotency, sterility concerns (Fierce)
• Biotech upstart gets $50M to test new virus-based therapies against solid tumors (Endpoints)
• A high-profile gene therapy biotech takes aim at Huntington's (MedtechDive)
• Merck KGaA's venture arm is ready to make new investments, raising more than $675M to get things going (Endpoints)
• Vivo Capital, Bain, Primavera pour $200M into virtually unknown targeted oncology play out of China (Endpoints)
• Newpath Partners kicks off $350M fund with a wunderkind holding the bag and an all-star scientific team waiting in the wings (Endpoints)
• Industry Disappointed With England’s Proposed Approach To Innovative Medicines Fund (Pink Sheet)

• Ex-FDA chief Stephen Hahn lands another new gig, this time as CEO of a cancer testing startup (Endpoints)
• Stryker Fails To Convince FDA To Exempt Patient-Transport Devices (Medtech Insight)
• US FDA Proposes Independent Contractor To Track User Fee Dollars Used To Pay FTEs (Medtech Insight)
• Study links cochlear implants to new bone formation, long-term residual hearing loss (MedtechDive)
• Find Resources To Designate IVDR Notified Bodies, Commission Tells Member States (Medtech Insight)
• Boston Scientific Advances First ‘Modular’ Cardiac Rhythm Management System (Medtech Insight)

• Centene agrees to pay $28 million to resolve another state probe into its pharmacy benefits business (STAT)
• Full Fed. Circ. Told Teva Overreacting In Skinny Label IP Case (Law360)
• Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Teva Challenge To Drug Patent (Law360)
• Pfizer, ex-employee reach a deal in COVID-19 vaccine trade secrets case (Fierce)
• Abbott Claims DexCom CGM Suits Renege On Tech-Sharing Agreement (Medtech Insight)