Logistics & Supply Chain

The Risk of Dependency in Pharma Supply Chains

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...

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WHO Halts Covid Trials with Chloroquine

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...

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Gilead Licensing Remdesivir Production

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...

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Bayer Seen in Verbal Roundup Settlements

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...

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US Gives AstraZeneca $ 1 billion for Oxford Vaccine

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...

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US in Emergency Plan to Produce COVID-19 Treatments

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...

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AstraZeneca Targets 30 Million Vaccine Doses by September

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...

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PetroIneos Seeking UK Government Loan?

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...

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Pfizer to Make Space for Vaccine Production

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...

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Industry and EU Parliament Back Green Recovery

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...