09.04.2020
- US President Donald Trump’s relentless promotion of the 86-year-old generic drug hydroxychloroquine, used successfully to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, as an...
02.04.2020
- In a settlement over Monsanto's Roundup labeling, Bayer has agreed to pay $39.6 million to end a US class action lawsuit charging that the US agribusiness giant misled consumers...
01.04.2020
- India’s Union Cabinet has approved an investment package worth $1.3 billion to boost the country’s pharma and API production. The move is designed to reduce dependency on other...
30.03.2020
- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of French drugmaker Sanofi, has agreed to collaborate with Translate Bio, a US clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics...
25.03.2020
- Recent remarks by US president Donald Trump in a nationally televised White House press conference that the malaria drug chloroquine could be a “game changer” in the fight against...
24.03.2020
- The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has written to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen with a number of recommendations to quickly allow easier and faster...
23.03.2020
- Following controversial suggestions by US president Donald Trump that malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are ready to be used as experimental treatments for the COVID...
20.03.2020
- Several research groups and companies have launched studies to see whether widely available, low-cost generic drugs can be used to help treat the illness caused by the new...
19.03.2020
- The race to have a COVID-19 vaccine available for clinical trials is rapidly heating up. In the first three days of this week, two US companies and a German biotech in cooperation...
17.03.2020
- News reports that the US government had offered considerable sums of money to lure top-level scientists working for a Germany-based privately owned biotech, or even the company...
