Thailand

Lotus will look forward to adding ophthalmic and respiratory products to its growing portfolio after striking a deal to swallow up Teva’s operations in Thailand.

The 25th IMDRF meeting in March 2024 agreed that regulatory reliance models save resources, encourage innovation, bring devices to the market faster and boost patient access. Singapore and Thailand have operated a model of mutual regulatory reliance for three years. Thailand also recently broached deeper collaboration with Brazil’s Anvisa.

Adult immunization programs can save “billions” for society, but their value is underestimated because of challenges around measuring broader value evidence and a lack of incentives for companies to collect this data, says the Office of Health Economics.

Eisai’s initiatives in Thailand mark the company's first attempts to collaborate directly with government organizations to address dementia-related issues. The major Japanese firm teamed up with the country’s largest private insurance firm in 2022 to extend coverage to Alzheimer's and is planning to file locally for Leqembi’s approval by March 2024.

One of firms targeted in eight most recent warnings published since early September to OTC drug manufacturers, Zhao Qing Longda Biotechnology Co. in China, was dinged for both failing to respond to a request for records and for concerns about its production with DEG and EG.

Mannatech launches in Thailand; China facility becoming Clariant’s global health care support hub; Signs in Dollar General stores link to CHPA online pain relief product quiz; and Nutrawise counsel elected CRN board chair.

As it looks to roll out its new dengue vaccine globally, Takeda will work with Kao’s Thai subsidiary on education and prevention activities in Bangkok, later expanding these to wider areas of Thailand, in the first such local collaboration by the private sector. 

Response to sale of Unilever’s direct selling business in Thailand, Unilever Life, like its recent failed bid for GSK consumer and its elimination of 1,500 management staff, exposes disconnect between its priorities and its shareholders preferences.

The US FDA says it’s “investigating certain imported medical gloves that appear to have been reprocessed, cleaned, or recycled and sold as new.” The 270 firms in question are listed on an import alert that says their gloves are subject to Detention without Physical Examination.

Here’s the complete list of foreign firms that were included on an import alert because gloves they made or sold may have been “reprocessed, cleaned, or recycled and sold as new,” the US FDA says.