Despite a raft of measures to prevent substandard or falsified (SF) medicines from reaching individuals, these medicines proliferated with the growth of e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic. The problem requires multistakeholder counter efforts, and for providers and patients to change their behaviors.

The company announced data from the Phase III SPRING study of Takhzyro in children aged 2-11; there is no approved long-term prophylactic therapy for children under 6.

As China's regulators renew moves to encourage the development of pediatric medicines, indication expansion may give health players a new growth engine, despite remaining policy challenges and lingering market uncertainties.

The US Food and Drug Administration has taken additional steps to ensure mutations of the COVID-19 virus do not negatively impact the efficacy of tests.