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Germany's health ministry is planning to introduce compulsory price negotiations for patented drugs between the pharmaceutical industry and health insurers, it confirmed to Scrip. The measure could eventually put an end to free pricing in Europe's ...
Raimondas Sukys has become Lithuania's new health minister taking over the post from the acting health minister Ingrida Simonyte . Lithuania's president Dalia Grybauskaite has asked him to go ahead with the healthcare reform and fight corruption ...
The European Commission will provide €12 million in funding for two new research projects which will develop novel influenza treatments, including against both (A) H1N1 pandemic influenza and (A) H5N1 avian flu. Speaking at an EU influenza meeting ...
In the run up to the general election the UK's three main political parties say they will support the life sciences industry. But victory for any party could affect the future of NICE, and the drug's budget. 2009 was a good year for the UK life ...
Around 300 products will escape a reduction in the next regular revision of reimbursement prices for prescription drugs in Japan on April 1st because they meet certain criteria under complex new rules being adopted on a trial basis this ...
 
Hospitals' failure to pay pharmaceutical companies and newly announced price cuts are just some of the challenges facing the sector in Greece, Elizabeth Sukkar, Scrip's world editor, discovers. ...
The pharmaceutical industry has long eyed Turkey as one of its key emerging markets, but recent government action, which could see medicine access delayed by years, is giving it a wake-up call, ...
US agencies are making inroads in the use of comparative effectiveness research to support more robust decision-making. Observational studies are an emerging force in this area and promise to ...
 
Jeff George took over as head of Sandoz, Novartis's generics business, in late 2008. With a big push in emerging markets, a leadership position in biosimilars and an expanded focus on injectables, he ...
Developing relationships with medicine regulators in China and India is just one of the challenges facing Emer Cooke, the international face of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Scrip's Elizabeth ...
Many pharmaceutical and biotech companies devote themselves to the discovery and development of novel drugs for unmet medical needs. However, with R&D costs and regulatory hurdles multiplying, and ...
 
The US is a great place to do business. Being an almost free market, the profits are good, but so also are the temptations. So if you can't be bothered to put the money into a clinical trial to find a new indication for your product, you could ...
1. risk aversion converges with focus on quality The rise and rise of the biotech sector and big pharma's increasing reliance on biological products as sources of future innovation are well established industry trends. Interesting, therefore, to ...
As the US Congress debates the shape of a permanent comparative effectiveness research (CER) programme and who should run it, the agencies that received $1.1 billion in CER funding under an economic stimulus bill earlier this year have started ...
 
Percutaneous coronary intervention is an increasingly common treatment for many people with coronary disease. Randomised trials using antiproliferative, drug-eluting stents (DES) have shown important reductions in the need for repeat procedures ...
 
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