29.05.2020
- In recent decades, outsourcing of production steps, especially to Asia, has been one of the most important trends in manufacturing strategies in both the European and the US...
29.05.2020
- A more or less global consensus now appears to have been reached that the 86-year-old malaria drug chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for Covid-19...
27.05.2020
- Gilead Sciences has tapped five generic drugmakers as partners to further expand supplies of remdesivir, its drug now being trialed in the US as a Covid-19 treatment. Non-exclusive...
26.05.2020
- With potentially 125,000 US lawsuits from plaintiffs charging that Monsanto’s Roundup-branded herbicide caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma believed to be pending, current brand...
22.05.2020
- The US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has added another illustrious European pharmaceutical industry player to the list of those whose resources it...
20.05.2020
- The administration of US president Donald Trump has had a rocky relationship with the country’s pharmaceutical industry since taking office in 2017. The move this week to award...
19.05.2020
- Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has announced it will make as many as 30 million initial doses of a potential Covid-19 vaccine available by September this year, assuming the...
13.05.2020
- Petrochemical refinery operator PetroIneos, owned by Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe‘s Jersey-based Ineos Investments and London-based PetroChina International, a subsidiary of the...
12.05.2020
- To save manufacturing space for its growing vaccines plans, Pfizer has said it will outsource production of some of its pharmaceutical portfolio. The work is planned to be shared...
06.05.2020
- The European Parliament (EP) and the chemical industry seem to be on (almost) the same page as regards strategies to overcome the ongoing coronavirus crisis, though with a slightly...