Justice Kavanaugh voted to grant Teva’s petition for certiorari. It is unknown if other justices voted with him. The high court last month declined to hear Novartis's Gilenya patent case and Sanofi’s antitrust allegations against Mylan’s EpiPen rebate agreements.

US FDA Commissioner and Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response cautioned against changes to rewards for medical countermeasure developers in the next Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act reauthorization that might discourage biotech companies from working with the government.

In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb discusses conference highlights from SXSW and LSI while Barnaby Pickering talks about his coverage on voice biomarkers. Hannah Daniel discusses BetterHelp’s return of $7.8m to customers to settle with FTC for sharing health data.

Plus deals involving Ono/PeptiDream, Onconic/Livzon, Teijin/Novartis, Eisai/Biogen, Abbisko/Allist, Daewoong/M8, GC Biopharma/Catalyst and KYM Biosciences/AstraZeneca.