Lotus Pharmaceuticals aims to build a stronghold in Thailand and beyond, after the Alvogen subsidiary announced a partnership with a subsidiary of Thai state-owned conglomerate PTT, which includes a $50m capital injection.

As India permits private sales, prices for J&J and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines will be watched closely. While demand is set to spike with age criteria for those eligible to receive the shots expanded, local manufacturers Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech are ramping up capacities with the government’s help.

It is vital to understand the role of the microbiome in immunity and vaccine response, and how the microbiome may impact the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine programs in the real world.

As sponsors and US FDA continue to face fallout, newly launched digital archive of industry documents from opioid litigation and settlements will be free public resource for those investigating activities that led to the opioid epidemic. It is modeled on the archive of tobacco industry documents, which has been the basis of about 1,000 scientific publications.