EU unveils reforms for affordable medicines to avoid further shortages

antibiotic resistance Another major challenge is increasing microbial resistance to existing antibiotics, which causes 35,000 deaths in the EU every year. Because antibiotics have to be taken in moderate, defined doses, they are less attractive to pharmaceutical companies than blockbuster drugs. To address that problem, the commission is considering introducing transferable vouchers that would allow […]

There’s no easy way to get Pfizer’s Covid drug Paxlovid in China

After being approved in February last year, Paxlovid was barely used in China until December, when the government began to lift its strict containment policy, and a wave of COVID infections began to build. Uttar Pradesh’s supply boom Chinese officials have acknowledged that the supply of paxlovid is still insufficient to meet demand, even as […]