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Spain The latest stories from Spain’s booming healthcare and life science industry. Spain still leads Europe for clinical trial numbers, while a recent meeting between Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and Roche CEO Thomas Schinecker on a new manufacturing agreement speaks to global pharma’s continued focus on the country. In other news,…

Switzerland Natural remedies are on the rise. The USD 80 billion global natural health products market is projected to nearly double by 2033, according to Market Growth Reports, as patients with chronic long-term metabolic, neurological, and inflammatory diseases seek out lower-side-effect botanical interventions to complement or even replace pharmaceuticals.   Health-conscious…

Switzerland Ophthalmology is one of the hottest niches in pharma right now. Investment is flowing in, M&A is up, and a broad cast of actors – from Big Pharma to legacy generics players and biotechs – are looking to get in on a market set to top USD 93.7 billion by…

Switzerland In an uncertain world, Europe – with Switzerland at its heart – is reclaiming its role as an epicentre for testing, scaling, and integrating new medical technologies.   While much of the global narrative around the European life sciences market centres on doom and gloom (access delays for innovative medicines,…

Switzerland With the Trump administration imposing tariffs of up to 39 percent on Swiss goods (recently reduced to 15 percent), the pressure on Switzerland’s most influential industrial sector – pharmaceuticals – has undoubtedly intensified. Yet the industry continues to wield a super-size effect on the local economy, contributing up to a…

Denmark Drawn from Healthcare & Life Sciences Review Denmark 2025, this selection captures the major forces now reshaping one of Europe’s most dynamic life science hubs. From Denmark’s bid to double the sector’s economic weight by 2030, to its sweeping “Health Closer to You” reform, biotech surge, clinical-trials strategy, and evolving…

Brazil Rogerio Frabetti, General Manager of Biogen Brazil discusses the organisation’s strategic transformation as it expands beyond its neuroscience heritage into immunology whilst maintaining leadership in rare diseases. He articulates Brazil’s elevation to a top-tier global market, outlines ambitious growth trajectories in Alzheimer’s disease and lupus, and addresses the complexities of…

Germany The latest news from German pharma, including looming drug pricing reform, Boehringer Ingelheim’s EUR 640 million acquisition of a Kyowa Kirin autoimmune drug, and BioNTech’s updated revenue guidance. Also covered are Merck KGaA’s tie-up with JSR Life Sciences for its chromatography business, Bayer’s 12,000 layoffs, and STADA’s potential IPO.  …

Switzerland The first company to bring a treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) to market, Madrigal Pharmaceuticals is redefining how the world tackles fatty liver disease. From its new European base in Zug, the firm is building an entirely new therapeutic category while spearheading one of the most ambitious global launches…

France Pascal Houdayer, recently appointed CEO and the first non-family investor of Boiron, brings three decades of global leadership experience to one of France’s most iconic healthcare enterprises. In this conversation, he reflects on Boiron’s evolution from a pioneer in homeopathy to a global advocate of integrative health, its diversification into…

Switzerland With over seven decades of innovation behind it, Lupin has evolved from an Indian pioneer in anti-tuberculosis therapies into a global pharmaceutical leader shaping the future of complex generics, speciality care, and biosimilars. As the company accelerates its European expansion, Laurent Renaudie shares how Lupin’s entrepreneurial culture, patient-centred mission, and…

Europe Affordability is not necessarily the main barrier to better rare disease therapy access in Europe. Across the continent, orphan availability correlates poorly with GDP per capita, but strongly with health technology assessment methods, speed of pricing and reimbursement, and central vs regional decision-making. Better system design – rather than simply…