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...Campaigners are supported by more than 400 senior pharma and biotech executives at companies, including Pfizer and Merck, who have spoken out against a preliminary injunction against abortion pill mifepristone...
...The Russian Direct Investment Fund, the Kremlin’s state wealth fund that has financed the Gamaleya Institute’s Sputnik V vaccine, declined to comment on the Mexico trials but said approval by national healthcare...
...“Together with Pfizer, we are also working with various organisations to support the supply of vaccines to populations worldwide....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...And would that not, as the pharma industry argues, destroy the private sector’s incentive for investment?...
...Phase 3 trials of Sputnik V began in September on 30,000 volunteers....
...The European Medicines Agency has accelerated the approval process for a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany’s BioNTech and US pharma group Pfizer, to allow for the rapid authorisation of the shot as soon...
...The company needs to produce and deliver the jab — a process that has proved fraught for most pharma groups....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab carries deliberate cold war echoes....
...Tensions will also be running high over how to distribute 10m additional BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines within the bloc....
...Science editor Clive Cookson and Frankfurt correspondent Joe Miller dig into the detail of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine....
...Brussels vs Big Pharma The fact that the spotlight is so firmly on von der Leyen herself is no coincidence....
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
...(The Hill, BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, Times, Devex) Trump v Big Pharma Pfizer reversed drug price increases after being lambasted by the US president, who threatened — as yet unspecified — government...
...Big Pharma M&A is back....
...The CMA said in August it had reached a provisional view that Pfizer and a UK company called Flynn Pharma had charged “excessive and unfair prices” for an anti-epilepsy drug — phenytoin sodium — inflating...
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Pfizer found itself embroiled in litigation in Nigeria, for example, after an outbreak of meningitis when it was accused of testing an unproven drug on 100 children....
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