Humanity is faced with an unprecedented vaccination effort in order to achieve collective immunity close to 70%, or 5.5 billion people worldwide! Over 10 billion doses will need to be produced over time! Either by optimizing at best, in sterile vials of 10 doses, this represents a billion vials to be filled, packaged, stored, and sent to the places where the vaccine doses are distributed.

Positive data have continued to accumulate this week for Covid-19 vaccine candidates. After Pfizer and BioNTech's announcement followed by Moderna, it was time for AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford to release their own results...

ApiJect Systems, Corp., has been approved by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) for a $590 million loan to construct a multi-facility campus enabling the U.S. to more quickly package high volumes of injectable medicines and vaccines...

American pharmacies and drugstore chains have a formidable new competitor: Amazon. The giants of the sector, CVS, Walgreens and RiteAid, but also the pharmacies of large low-cost distribution, such as Walmart and Costco, have been expecting for months such an official announcement, likely to upset the market of 300 billion dollars from the sale of drugs in the United States....

The path is gradually clearing for laboratories battling against Covid-19. And the race to bring a vaccine to the market has dramatically sped up during the past weeks with several announcements by Pfizer and Moderna....

While the giants of drug and biotechnology manufacturers are working in a frantic race on the projects of vaccine candidates, many manufacturing contracts are under negotiation in order to meet the production capacities to be implemented.

The European Health Union is on track; mid-November European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen offered a €5 billion budget dedicated to health over the next seven years...

Will aducanumab become one day the first medication approved for Alzheimer? What happened last week confirms if needed that the story has not been written yet and that the cycle failure is not over...

Were the Top 10 best-selling pharmaceutical drugs in the world impacted by social distancing measures, delays in elective surgeries, prioritization of Covid-19 patients during the first nine months of 2020? As most drugmakers have just announced their third quarter results, it is clear that Big Pharma's resilience is a reality, while blockbusters still make their way...

Results from the first interim analysis of a Phase III study of Pfizer and BioNTech's BNT162b2 have raised huge enthusiasm all over the world as the pandemic is speeding up, forcing governments to enact new lockdowns. ...

While the Covid-19 pandemic shows no sign of decrease and accelerates on the contrary dramatically in many parts of the world, urging governments to set up more restrictive measures, several drugmanufacturers raise hopes for potential coronavirus vaccines or treatments in the coming weeks or months.

The country is becoming more and more a worldwide turntable for R&D and trials against the pandemic.

The pandemic and the economic lockdown severely reduced prescriptions for medicines, doctors or hospitals visits by patients and also delayed uses of innovative treatments. With immediate financial consequences on companies' sales and revenues.

Fareva enters into exclusive negotiations with Novartis to take over the production site in Unterach (Upper Austria), recognized as the center of excellence for the manufacture of injectable cancer drugs.