USA The latest from US health care policy, including the Senate budget deal funding for a range of major health care priorities; Biden’s proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency that would reshape the government’s medical research efforts; the Senate Finance Chair’s proposal to lower prescription drug prices; the FDA’s internal investigation into…

Japan Writing in the June edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, representatives of Japanese pharmaceutical companies with US operations outline how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their ongoing clinical studies.   The spread of COVID-19 and the resulting social activity restrictions have severely impacted drug development and threatened the continuity of clinical…

USA Dan Leonard of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) highlights five key takeaways from the organisation’s remote but dynamic annual conference, and how the US generics and biosimilars industry might evolve post-COVID.   AAM and our member companies have experienced a year like no other, and the lessons of the…

USA With the US FDA’s controversial recent decision to approve Biogen and Eisai’s aducanumab – the first approval for a new Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drug since 2003 – PharmaBoardroom has raided its archives to bring key industry stakeholders’ takes on the significance of this decision and what it might mean for…

USA Taking the example of music’s effect on Alzheimer’s disease patients, John G Singer makes the case for a more holistic approach to healthcare; focusing less on the transformative potential of individual drugs and more on value as a stream of benefits delivered through a living system.   Singer/songwriter Glen Campbell,…

USA Writing in the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Erica Lyons, Sarrit Kovacs, Matthew Kowalik, and Jessica Lee from the Division of Gastroenterology, Office of New Drugs, CDER at the US FDA look at how patient input is increasingly being utilised in new drug development, its importance in assessing…

USA The day the Biden administration announced its support for the waiver of IP rights for COVID-19 vaccines, Moderna’s stock fell six percent; the day after that, another two percent. However, the Massachusetts-based company’s CEO Stephane Bancel remains unconcerned and believes that their successful vaccine is just the beginning of the mRNA era…

USA In a shock move, Joe Biden’s administration looks set to support a waiver on intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines.   The decision – which comes amid worrying situations in India and other counties and increasing concern that vaccine-resistant strains of COVID could undermine a global recovery – has…

Mexico While Mexico struggles with its COVID-19 vaccination campaign, residents of the country’s northern states have begun flying to the United States in search of a shot. Fearful of “fake vaccines” in their home country, some Mexicans are risking their tourism visas, and in some cases their lives, to be inoculated…

USA PhRMA’s Stephen J. Ubl outlines two ways in which the new US presidency can help lower healthcare costs and why biopharmaceutical companies support changes to the system that can lower US patients’ out-of-pocket spending and continue to drive innovation.   By bringing an end to the pandemic and lowering out-of-pocket…

USA With Rare Disease Day coming up on February 28th, one of the leading organizations dedicated to serving affected patients in the US, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), is making a push to put the spotlight on the limited access to diagnosis, treatment and care suffered by rare disease…

USA The AAM’s Dan Leonard highlights the savings impact that generic and biosimilar medicines have on US healthcare today and introduces the ‘Secure Our Meds’ campaign which aims to educate policymakers on the importance of generic and biosimilar market competition and how it can be safeguarded.   More than 35 years…