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Portugal Lawyer Joana Silveira Botelho provides regular legal assistance to pharmaceutical companies and other entities of the health sector. Here she examines Portugal’s new regulatory framework on cannabis for medicinal purposes.    What will actually change considering that in Portugal (and in the European Union) it is already possible to obtain a marketing…

Spain Carlos Espina, managing director of COMSA Cleanroom Technology, a leading Spanish engineering firm, highlights the company’s great successes over the last few years, their international reach, and their strategy to maintain continued growth.   As COMSA Corporación group has annual revenues of over EUR one billion, we only are looking…

Spain Fernando Álvarez, director general of Allergan Iberia, highlights the market’s shift towards more holistic innovation and the company’s main growth drivers, especially in the field of aesthetics. Furthermore, he touches on the importance of the market access team in the fragmented Spanish healthcare ecosystem and his ambitions for Allergan throughout…

Opinion Mohamed is a passionate Blockchain enthusiast who is committed to helping grow the Blockchain ecosystem around the world. Here he talks about healthcare’s slow adoption of technology and the challenges that come with hefty privacy regulation of patient data.  The life-and-death nature of the industry might be a factor of…

Spain Although death rates due to cardiovascular diseases in Spain are among the lowest in the EU, they represent the main cause of death in Spain, accounting for 30% of all deaths in 2014 (33% of deaths among women and 27% among men). Cancer is the second most important cause of…

Patients There are around 2 billion people in the world that do not have access to the medicines they need. This week the 2018 Access to Medicine Index was published revealing that there is a handful of pharmaceutical companies developing the bulk of urgently needed new medicines for the poor. The…

Malaysia Dr Ramli Zainal, the director at National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), expresses the continuous work of NPRA to build a strong regulatory ecosystem in Malaysia and the important role that the Malaysian regulator has in the ASEAN region. He also takes time to explain the upcoming priorities to further establish…

France Stéphane Roques, CEO of Medicen, the health care cluster for the Paris region, discusses his vision for Medicen and the changes he has made during his first few months in the tole. He highlights the need for domestic and European collaboration to be able to compete against clusters in the…

Turkey Acibadem’s Mehmet Ali Aydınlar offers his insights into the Turkish healthcare sector, highlighting Turkey’s burgeoning healthcare tourism industry. He also describes Acıbadem’s focus of growth, globalization and fundamental values that have helped the hospital chain become a prominent trademark on a global scale.   In the following years, we will…

Spain Kerman Elordi, managing director of Nekicesa, describes the key trends impacting the pharmaceutical and packaging industries, how the company leverages innovation to meet market needs a first mover in technology, and what the future holds for the company and the sector.   The packaging and pharmaceutical industries are traditionally conservative…

Spain Fernando Prados Roa, deputy minister of health for Madrid, discusses the health paradigm of the community and elaborates on the role of SERMAS in managing and coordinating the city’s public healthcare system.   What sets us apart in healthcare is our professionals Could you begin by introducing SERMAS – the…

Opinion Richard Saynor, Senior Vice President, Classic and Established Products at GSK urges big pharma to weigh in on improving global health and well-being to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  On the part of pharmaceutical companies, we have a responsibility to help people gain access to high-quality healthcare and…