Short Takes: Feb. 13, 2026

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Lilly loses. Again. Like Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner, Eli Lilly keeps taking compounding pharmacies to court … and keeps running into a brick wall. The reason is always the same: Courts won’t let the company use US unfair-competition law to sneak past Article III of the Constitution as the company keeps trying to do. Once more, with feeling: Only the FDA has standing to bring suits alleging violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The latest case pitted Lilly against Willow Health Services. The judge granted Willow’s request for dismissal with prejudice, meaning the case is over and done. (Feel like diving into the legalese, or want to ask an AI to summarize it? Here’s the full decision as a 13-page PDF. Enjoy.)

We’ll get right on that. “Physicians,” says the American College of Physicians, “Are Not Providers.” Why not? Because an ACP paper says the term “is detrimental to the patient-physician relationship and undermines physicians’ ethical obligations.” Bless their hearts, you can’t make this stuff up. Our take: To quote Dr. Hibbert from the Simpsons, “Hillbillies prefer to be called ‘sons of the soil,’ but it ain’t gonna happen.”