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FTC's Closure of Its Investigation of Consummated Hospital Merger in Temple, Texas
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Richard A. Feinstein, Former Director, Bureau of Competition
Bureau of Competition Director Issues Statement on FTCs Closure of its Investigation of Consummated Hospital Merger in Temple, Texas
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Richard Feinstein, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, has issued a statement on the agency’s decision to close its investigation into a consummated hospital merger in...
FTC Order Ensures Future Competition for Parkinsons and Chemotherapy Drugs That Watsons Acquisition of Arrow Would Have Eliminated
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced a proposed consent order settling charges that Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s acquisition of Robin Hood Holdings Limited, owner of Arrow Pharmaceuticals...
Commission Issues 2009 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration; FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Matter Concerning Carilion Clinic
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Commission Issues 2009 Report on U.S. Ethanol Market Concentration The Commission has issued the “2009 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration.†This is the FTC’s fifth annual report on the state of...
Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz On Passage of H.R. 3126, the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2009 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee
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“Americans are still experiencing a period of extreme financial distress, and the modest new authority given to our agency will help ensure that we have the tools necessary to fight fraud and go after...
FTC Order Restores Competition Lost Through Schering-Plough's Acquisition of Merck
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Merck & Co., Inc. must sell its interest in Merial Limited, an animal health joint venture with Sanofi-Aventis S.A., and Schering-Plough must sell its assets related to significant drugs for nausea...
U.S. Court of Appeals Enforces Subpoenas in FTCs Androgel Investigation; In Separate Case, FTC Files Petition to Compel Â鶹´«Ã½ of Subpoena Issued to Boehringer Ingelheim
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced two subpoena enforcement actions challenging tactics that delay agency investigations. First, the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia affirmed...
Statement of FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee's Passage of the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act (S. 369)
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By taking this action, the Committee clearly recognizes the very real danger that these sweetheart deals pose to Americans struggling to pay their medical bills. Consumers must wait – sometimes years...
FTC Order Prevents Anticompetitive Effects from Pfizers Acquisition of Wyeth
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced a settlement resolving its extensive investigation of Pfizer Inc.’s proposed $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth and requiring significant divestitures to...
Commission Order Restores Competition Eliminated by Carilion Clinics Acquisition of Two Outpatient Clinics
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Carilion Clinic, a Virginia-based health care company, has agreed to sell two independent outpatient medical clinics it acquired last year to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that the...
Public Statement
A Healthcare Triptych
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Reprinted from September 28, 2009 FTC Watch
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A Healthcare Triptych
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Thoratec Corporation, and HeartWare International, Inc., In the Matter of
The Commission authorized a preliminary injunction to block Thoratec Corporation’s proposed $282 million acquisition of rival medical device maker HeartWare International, Inc., charging that the transaction would substantially reduce competition in the U.S. market for left ventricular devices (LVADs), a life-sustaining treatment for patients with advanced heart failure. The FTC’s administrative complaint alleges that Thoratec seeks to maintain its monopoly by acquiring HeartWare, thus eliminating the only significant threat to Thoratec’s continued dominance of the LVAD market. In August of 2009, the parties announced they would not to proceed with the proposed acquisition, and the Commission dismissed the Administrative Complaint without filing an motion for preliminary injunction in federal court.
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Administrative
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0910064
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9339
Statement by FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz on Adoption of the Pay for Delay Amendment to the Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee
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I commend the House Energy and Commerce Committee for adopting the Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act (H.R.1706) as an amendment to the omnibus health reform legislation. If enacted into...
Bureau of Competition Statement Regarding the Announcement that Thoratec Corporation Will Not Proceed with Its Proposed Acquisition of HeartWare International
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Following the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s approval of a lawsuit to block the transaction, Thoratec Corporation today announced that it has abandoned its proposed $282 million acquisition of HeartWare...
FTC Challenges Thoratec's Proposed Acquisition of HeartWare International
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has authorized a lawsuit to block Thoratec Corporation’s proposed $282 million acquisition of rival medical device maker HeartWare International, Inc., charging that the...
FTC Challenges Carilions Acquisition of Outpatient Medical Clinics
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has issued an administrative complaint challenging Carilion Clinic’s 2008 acquisition of two outpatient clinics in the Roanoke, Virginia, area. Prior to the acquisition...
FTC Testifies on Importance of Competition and Antitrust Â鶹´«Ã½ to Lower-Cost, Higher-Quality Health Care
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today told the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance of the Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation that competition and the...
Commission Approves FY 2008 HSR Premerger Notification Report; FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Matter Concerning Alta Bates Medical Group
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Commission Approves FY 2008 HSR Premerger Notification Report The Commission, with the concurrence of the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, has released the Thirty-First Annual Report to...
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