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Vaccine equity: how the pandemic demonstrated global health inequality

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With the rapid onset of the pandemic, the race to develop a viable vaccine quickly became a race to secure access to the developed vaccines. In this article, Ben Hargreaves examines how wealth determined the winners and what is now underway to help lower-income countries gain access to the available vaccines.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Lilly strategy against compounders, Bristol’s antipsychotic, and more

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Novartis chief executive Vas Narasimhan and Paul Hudson, his counterpart at Sanofi, say the European Commission should set a spending target for medicines and vaccines to “fairly reward innovation.”  pays nearly three times as much for branded and generic medicines as other comparable countries, according to U.S.

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STAT+: ‘Like playing the lottery’: A mixed picture for laid-off life sciences workers in Massachusetts

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The state’s biotech scene   exploded in the mid-2010s and early in the pandemic as exuberant investors disregarded the high failure rate in drug development and bet on buzzy technologies such as gene editing and messenger RNA vaccines. And although many companies are making layoffs, others are expanding.

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Takeda dengue vaccine receives positive CHMP opinion

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion of Takeda GmbH’s live, attenuated dengue tetravalent vaccine, Qdenga ( TAK-003 ). Medicines submitted under EU-M4all are assessed by the CHMP in collaboration with the WHO and target countries.

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The critical role of the generics sector during the pandemic

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“Now more than ever, it is our responsibility as a sector to ensure affordable access to healthcare and enable the future longevity of medicine development and supply.”. The generics medicines sector can, too, play a substantial part in discovering new areas for licensed products to be used in. Delivery of essential medicines.

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Millions of peoples’ access to affordable medicines at risk if India-EFTA trade deal finalised as is: MSF

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. “If accepted, these IP provisions will have drastic consequences on access to medicines and the health of patients in India and beyond. Millions of lives depend on India putting people’s health first and being able to continue supplying generic medicines globally,” according to Dr Mantoo.

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Novartis looking into future of its Sandoz’ generics business

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Novartis revealed today that it may consider divesting its generic medicines subsidiary Sandoz – amongst other options – which would further narrow its focus to innovative medicines.