Tagged with Healthcare

USA In recent years the US has seen an overall decease in cancer deaths thanks to innovative medicines and treatments. However, much work remains to be done in targeting and eliminating cancers. Below we highlight data for cancer deaths and cases in the US per male and female populations.     …

Opinion John G. Singer outlines why a focus on patients’ adherence to their medication is not necessarily useful in working to improve health outcomes and why innovation is more sorely needed in markets and strategies, not technologies and analytics.   “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” which opened yesterday at the…

USA Dr Gerard Anderson of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health critiques the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic, before explaining how access and affordability in the US can be improved, and his outlook on the future of American public health.   To some extent, we are the poster…

Turkey The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread rapidly across the globe amid critical supply shortages of medical devices and medicines. The rapid spread of the virus, on the one hand, threatens supply chains and causes shortages, on the other hand, it also strengthens global solidarity.   Brands from different sectors make an…

Long Read Accounting for less than two percent of the global pharmaceutical market, the Middle East has long been somewhat overlooked by many drug makers, most of whom seemed more intent on chasing demand in the decidedly more populous Asian market space. But, with an estimated annual growth rate of 10 percent,…

USA So far in 2020 PharmaBoardroom has conducted interviews with several key stakeholders in US healthcare. We have heard from leaders the US FDA, as well as representatives of patient groups, health insurance providers, and firms operating in the US on what they consider the most pressing issues facing US healthcare.…

USA US healthcare is often seen as a fragmented system of contrasts. The country has the highest healthcare expenditures as a percentage of GDP and the highest drug prices in the OECD, supporting the largest and most innovative healthcare market globally. However, it also has shockingly subpar healthcare outcomes compared to…

Belgium Sabena Solomon, general manager of GSK Benelux, speaks about her first impressions of the Belgium market, having come from GSK Finland, and her initial priorities for leading the affiliate. Solomon goes on to explain GSK’s continued commitment to ensuring patients have access to innovative medicines, the role the company plays…

Belgium Francis Arickx, country coordinator of Belgium for the Beneluxa Initiative, introduces the project and its mission to help shape a unified healthcare policy approach between its member countries through activities such as horizon scanning and health technology assessments.   Beneluxa is a first collaborative step towards more balance in the…

Belgium Luc Van Gorp of the Christian Mutuality Health Insurance Fund, Belgium’s largest health insurance fund, explains the organisation’s role within the Belgian healthcare system, how increased consolidation in recent years has affected its work, the current healthcare paradigm in Belgium, and why inter-stakeholder solidarity is essential to solve the healthcare…

USA Dan Leonard is president & CEO of the National Pharmaceutical Council, which sponsors and participates in research on the appropriate use of pharmaceuticals and the clinical and economic value of pharmaceutical innovation. Leonard outlines the activities of the Council – which celebrated its 65th anniversary in 2018 – his priorities…

UAE One year after King’s College Hospital’s establishment in the UAE, CEO Christian Schuhmacher discusses the hospital’s unique approach of combining the best of British healthcare with UAE’s superior services. He discusses why Dubai is an attractive destination for medical tourism, the benefits of patient pathway guidelines and where he hopes…