By Ameet Sarpatwari, Alexander Egilman, Aviva Wang, and Aaron S. Kesselheim
Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues.
Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of May. The selections feature topics ranging from a discussion of how the US Patent and Trademark Office could more closely scrutinize applications for drug patents whose siblings have been discontinued in other jurisdictions, to an evaluation of FDA advisory committee referrals for new drugs approved from 2010-2021, to an analysis of the patents and regulatory exclusivities on inhalers approved from 1986-2020. A full posting of abstracts/summaries of these articles may be found on our website.