A study indicates that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 and its sub-lineage Delta Plus can be neutralized by Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine, but a federal investigation in Brazil and a class action suit against its US partner have hurt the firm’s global ambitions. Experts weigh in on what the future could possibly hold.

Already priced domestically at a deep discount to counterpart PD-1s in the US, Beigene's tislelizumab could potentially get the first global approval for a China-originated drug in this class, as the immuno-oncology sector as a whole continues to come under pressure in China.

As a part of real-world evidence, patient-reported outcomes can serve to evaluate a drug's efficacy against primary or secondary endpoints and also reflect safety and quality of life, notes a just-released draft regulation from China’s Center for Drug Evaluation.