Judge blocks Trump administration rule requiring drug prices in TV ads

Just hours before the regulation was set to go into effect, a federal judge ruled on Monday that the Trump administration does not have the legal authority to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose drug prices in television ads. The rule was announced in May by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who said if drugmakers had to list their prices on television, they would keep them as low as possible to avoid embarrassment. Instead, Merck & Co., Eli Lilly and Co., and Amgen Inc. ar...