Amgen's Prolia appears to be the biggest drug on the list of products incurring price inflation penalties in Part B; many of the others have relatively low sales to Medicare.

Emerging Company Profile: The Dutch biotech is working on a more streamlined autologous stem cell therapy for traumatic spinal cord injury, an indication currently dominated by allogeneic treatments which present safety issues.

Internal emails show the 2011 hearing on Genentech’s VEGF-inhibitor was taxing for FDA employees, who had to deal with a number of novel issues; the workload is likely to be similarly complex for staff involved in upcoming hearing on Covis’ preterm birth prevention drug Makena.

While some cancer centers report sufficient stocks of the drug, they have already been turning to potential alternatives due to supply issues that could last for weeks or months.