Mitigating medicines shortages in Europe
The pharmaceutical industry must work together, applying new initiatives and harnessing digital tools to address Europe’s medicines shortages in 2023 and beyond, regulators and other organisations assert.
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The pharmaceutical industry must work together, applying new initiatives and harnessing digital tools to address Europe’s medicines shortages in 2023 and beyond, regulators and other organisations assert.
The Executive Steering Group on Shortages and Safety of Medicinal Products (MSSG) have stated it is closely monitoring and responding to the current EU antibiotic shortages.
Sandoz will invest €50 million in new Austrian finished dosage form manufacturing site, to support the global demand for penicillin products.
The portfolio will be offered to low- and lower-middle-income countries to help financially strained healthcare systems care for COVID-19 patients.
Researchers at Aston University and Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK, have discovered a highly effective three-drug approach to treat Mycobacterium abscessus (M. abscessus), a notoriously drug-resistant pathogen that affects up to 13 percent of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in the UK.
The Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group (JPAG) held a stability meeting at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s headquarters in London earlier this year. Attended by 65 delegates, its focus was on developments in stability testing and evaluation. Here follows a summary of the presentations made at the meeting.