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Trump admin taps startup to build nation's first stockpile of key drug ingredients
19 May 2020 - The $354 million project is designed to shore up the drug supply chain and reduce the country's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 May 2020
A drug company wagers the U.S. won’t dare charge it with crimes
15 May 2020 - Teva, the world’s largest maker of generic drugs, recently pulled out of settlement talks with the Justice ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 May 2020
The pandemic is a chance to revamp India’s pharmaceutical industry
9 May 2020 - Companies could switch from primarily making generics to producing higher-margin licensed drugs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Apr 2020
Drug makers prepare to make coronavirus treatments
23 April 2020 - Preparations would help make doses rapidly if testing pans out, but companies risk large outlays if the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2020
Coronavirus puts big pharma’s IP regime to the test
21 April 2020 - “Chaotic” is how Jorge Contreras, a law professor at the University of Utah, describes a struggle ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2020
If pharma helps quench the COVID-19 pandemic, what will it want in return?
21 April 2020 - Make no mistake: the only long-term solution to the COVID-19 pandemic is a safe and effective ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2020
Big pharma has the chance to come to the world’s rescue
20 April 2020 - The pandemic may finally do for the pharmaceutical industry what relentless TV advertising cannot: show off its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2020
NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options
17 April 2020 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for the NIH are bringing together more than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Apr 2020
Vaccine development becomes reality TV. Can it make viewers rethink pharma?
14 April 2020 - The pharmaceutical industry’s response to the novel coronavirus may not rescue its ailing reputation. But it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2020
Vaccine development is a case of 'market failure'
13 April 2020 - Reliance on the private market to develop vaccines has failed, leaving us vulnerable to pandemics such as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2020
Pharmaceutical profits and public health are not incompatible
8 April 2020 - We need the capital and creativity of the private sector to take on the coronavirus. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2020
Global plasma leaders collaborate to accelerate development of potential COVID-19 hyperimmune therapy
6 April 2020 - Partnership brings together world-leading plasma companies to focus on developing and delivering a hyperimmune immunoglobulin in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2020
Novartis and life sciences companies commit expertise and assets to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic alongside Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
26 March 2020 - Collaboration to address product development and scale up challenges posed by current pandemic. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2020
Coronavirus vindicates capitalism
19 March 2020 - Drug companies will save lives, even as Bernie Sanders is denouncing them. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2020
Generic ‘identity’ gets lost when companies juggle both generic and brand drugs
17 March 2020 - We think we know generic drug companies. They challenge patents held by brand firms. They litigate ...