By Ameet Sarpatwari, Alexander Egilman, 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 March. The selections feature topics ranging from an analysis of patent challenges by generic manufacturers on brand-name inhalers, a discussion of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA lawsuit and its potential implications for pharmaceutical regulation, and an estimate of U.S. public investment in the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. A full posting of abstracts/summaries of these articles may be found on our website.