To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On Monday morning, the Federal Trade Commission quietly added a sentence to its web page dedicated to the Commission's challenge of a proposed merger of two health systems in Philadelphia's northern suburbs, Thomas Jefferson University and the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network: The Commission vote to voluntarily dismiss its appeal to the 3rd Circuit of the district court decision declining to preliminarily enjoin the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network was 4-0. The unanimous decision etches in stone that for the first time in the 21st Century the FTC has abandoned litigation to enjoin a hospital merger after failing to obtain a preliminary injunction from the district court.