Mylan gets approval in India for pretomanid as part of a combination regimen with bedaquiline and linezolid, providing new hope to patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis. Volume changes may provide opportunities to tweak prices.

High-profile experts including Anthony Fauci and Adrian Hill share views at the ICMR symposium on progressing safe COVID-19 vaccines backed by ethical trials executed with appropriate scientific rigor. Human challenge studies, "vaccine nationalism" and equitable access were among the key issues deliberated, while India committed to making its coronavirus vaccines and related capabilities available to the world.

Dispatches from a world turned upside down also include the conditional approval of remdesivir in South Korea.

Sun’s Q1 earnings were dented by provisions related to the generic pricing investigation settlement with the US Department of Justice of arm Taro, and the impact of pandemic-related lockdowns. Some clinic-administered products bore the brunt of lock-downs in parts of the US, though market share was unaffected.

A Cipla veteran and CEO of the firm’s India business and other executives have quit, though the Indian company maintains it has underlying strength and continued business momentum to sustain growth. ANI Pharmaceuticals in the US has snapped up one outgoing executive as president and CEO.

Sun’s Q1 earnings were dented by provisions related to the generic pricing investigation settlement with the US Department of Justice of arm Taro, and the impact of pandemic-related lockdowns. Some clinic-administered products bore the brunt of lock-downs in parts of the US, though market share was unaffected.