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Canada Pamela Fralick of Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC) advocates for a collaborative multi-stakeholder approach to better tackle rare diseases in Canada.   Especially in smaller provinces, it’s virtually impossible to predictably manage the affordability and accessibility of drugs necessary to treat rare disease Around the world, rare diseases are becoming easier…

Europe The EFPIA’s Nathalie Moll outlines the case for a new EU-wide industrial strategy with biopharmaceuticals at its heart.   The pharmaceutical industry is an area of strategic economic and social value where the EU is a global player   Europe has a history as a world leader in medical innovation,…

China Cancer is one of the world’s leading causes of death and in China, the globe’s most populous country, it is an ever-increasing concern. In 2018, there were approximately 4.3 million new cases of cancer in China, and this number is expected to increase to 6.7 million by 2040. Below, we…

Hungary After years of planning and collaboration with various stakeholders, in 2017 the Hungarian government launched the Electronic Health Service Area (EESZT): a centralized database of patient records and health interventions with the aim of bringing Hungary in line with other countries at the forefront of digital healthcare   The Road…

Czech Republic Josef Kredba, country manager Czech Republic at G.L. Pharma, an Austrian pharmaceutical company, explains how the company has returned to growth in the challenging Czech generics market and shares his thoughts on market access and pricing conditions for both innovative and generic products.   On the one hand, authorities recognize…

Hungary Norbert Langen, founder and CEO of Phytotec, a Hungarian distributor of evidence-based natural Rx and OTC drugs, introduces the company and its unique approach to marketing non-chemically formulated pharmaceuticals in Hungary. Langen describes the importance of clinical evidence and product quality in the company’s portfolio and the advantages that Phytotec…

Czech Republic Jan Škrha, president of the Czech Diabetes Society (ČDS), provides insight into the most crucial advances in the quality care of Diabetes, which relies on the indispensable cooperation between specialists and General Practitioners (GPs). Škrha puts a strong emphasis on the importance of early diagnosis and discusses the underestimated role…

Puerto Rico “Medical device manufacturing has a long history on the island, starting with Baxter in the 1950s. Today, 30 world-leading medical device companies are present in Puerto Rico generating 20,000 direct jobs across 70 manufacturing plants producing more than 2,500 different types of devices, including many critically important life-sustaining products such…

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico’s export-driven economy could not exist without someone moving, literally, things from point A to point B. As the US Caribbean territory remains one of the world’s premiere manufacturing hubs, accounting for 22 percent of total US exports of pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing in 2018, according to the US…

Puerto Rico Celebrating its 45th anniversary in Puerto Rico this year, Medtronic is the largest life sciences company on the island with four manufacturing locations in Juncos, Villalba, Ponce and Humacao, as well as commercial operations. Its manufacturing footprint covers 900,000 sq. feet and employs more than 5,000 employees in total, making…

China Within the industry, Allergan already stands out for the interesting composition of its portfolio. For China President White Wang, this was precisely the attraction. He enthuses, “Allergan is truly a very unique company. It is at once a pharma company, a medical device company, a cosmetics/aesthetics company and a digital…

China The pharma industry tends to see a lot of personnel movement, particularly at management levels, but since the Chinese market started heating up a few years ago, the labour market has been left playing catch-up. As the Chinese government looks to streamline its regulatory approval processes, MNCs plan to expand…