カテゴリー: Pharmaceuticals industry
County reports more than 400,000 new infections but experts suspect figures are gross underestimateCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 deaths surged past 4,000 for the first time in India on Saturday in one of the world…
Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni says world leaders must stop putting big pharma’s profits before people’s lives. Sue Hoar wonders why more is not being done to help Covid patients in IndiaThe shortfall in Covid vaccine doses going to the Covax vaccine-sharing sch…
Only a fifth of doses expected by May delivered as export bans, hoarding and supply shortages biteCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe global vaccine-sharing initiative Covax has so far delivered about one in five of the Oxfo…
This is what happens when a third of humanity depends on one manufacturer for Covid jabs. We need to waive patents nowAs the UK’s vaccination programme was “knocked off course” due to a delay in receiving five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine f…
Serum Institute boss Adar Poonawalla has rented a Mayfair mansion for £50,000 a weekCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe AstraZeneca vaccine has made Prof Sarah Gilbert – who led the Oxford team that created it – one of the U…
Parents whose only hope was finding foreign sponsorship or a clinical trial are now looking for homegrown breakthroughsFor three years, Vidya tried to find the cause of her son’s recurrent fevers and low cognitive development. When she found out, she w…
AstraZeneca says it has not discussed ‘emergency use authorisation’ with the US Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe company manufacturing the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine has denied it is in talks with the Trump adm…
Participating hospitals begin enrolling volunteers to test drug’s impact on coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA major trial to see whether the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, taken by Donald Trump to protect himsel…
Video meeting seen as global endorsement of WHO and sign of Trump’s isolation on world stageCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGlobal leaders have pledged to accelerate cooperation on a coronavirus vaccine and to share research…
Restrictions covering drugs including paracetamol prompt fears of global shortagesCoronavirus – live updatesThe coronavirus outbreak has led India to restrict the export of dozens of drugs including paracetamol and various antibiotics, leading to fears…
From carmakers to airlines and hotels, the impact of the outbreak is punishing firms worldwideCoronavirus – latest updatesThe coronavirus outbreak is already having a damaging economic and business impact, affecting everything from tourism to the suppl…
As the Indian government loosens its prescription opioid laws after decades of lobbying by palliative care advocates, the cash-fed healthcare system is ripe for misuseIn the crowded waiting room of Dr Sunil Sagar’s clinic, in the working-class neighbor…
As India loosens its stringent narcotics laws, US companies including Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories and a network affiliated with Purdue Pharma are rushing inPain, like death, is a universal phenomenon.The grimace on the woman’s face, regi…