COVID-19 had a differing impact on Q2 consumer health sales for France's Boiron, the UK's Alliance Pharma and Sweden's Karo.

Companies across Europe are dealing with new challenges stemming from the coronavirus outbreak, particularly with supply issues due to increased demand. This article details the responses of five consumer health players in the region: Reckitt Benckiser, Zentiva, Vitabiotics, Alliance Pharma and BioGaia.

Blackstone raised $3.44bn of a $4.58bn life science fund, while HealthCare Royalty Partners raised $1.8bn and MVM closed a $325m fund. Also, 20 private drug developers raised $20m or more, but three public biopharma firms unveiled restructuring plans. 

J&J agrees to sell marketing rights to its OTC 1% ketoconazole dandruff treatment product to Kramer Labs in the US and Latin America, to German firm Stada in the EMEA and to UK firm Alliance Pharma for the Asia-Pacific market as it continues to spin off non-core brands and focus on its core $1bn brands.