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Medtech Global medtech giant Medtronic manages a highly diverse region that spans both developed and developing markets from its UAE offices. The firm continues to see growth potential in both types of markets, as well as abundant opportunities to improve outcomes for potentially millions of patients through its technologies.   Diverse…

Coronavirus During a global virtual press briefing on 19 March 2020, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) gathered five global pharmaceutical leaders including Roche Chairman and CEO Severin Schwan to discuss the global ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis.   With Roche’s global leadership in diagnostics, many of the questions…

Belgium With national governments scrambling to take measures in order to counter the Covid-19 pandemic, we are again confronted with the fact that a EU common policy in the healthcare field is quasi inexistent. This is equally so in respect of the pricing and reimbursement of medicines.   While the so-called…

Coronavirus Shawview Consulting’s Brendan Shaw makes a compelling case for why the ongoing coronavirus pandemic should lead to a rethinking of how healthcare works across the globe.   Global crises can trigger major reform and Covid19 should trigger a reform of our health systems.   9/11 and the GFC When two…

Sweden Sweden’s USD 4.8 billion pharmaceutical market, its population size of 10 million and marginal positioning on the northerly fringe of the European Union all belie a legacy as a real titan of life sciences.* The country that has introduced some of the most impactful healthcare inventions of the 20th century…

EFPIA The European Commission recently announced a new industrial strategy and pharmaceutical roadmap, largely focused on revising legislation dating back nearly two decades, with the aim of laying out a concrete plan by the end of 2020. The commission’s priority is to revitalize medical innovation in Europe, a chief concern voiced…

Coronavirus During a global virtual press briefing on 19 March 2020, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) gathered five global pharmaceutical leaders including Eli Lilly Chairman and CEO David A. Ricks, who is also the president of IFPMA for 2019-2020, to discuss the global ramifications of the COVID-19…

UAE Medtronic’s president for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Majid Kaddoumi, explains the two main challenges for medical technology companies in the region, the ways in which data could revolutionize the industry and why emerging markets with higher penetration rates could potentially bring four or five times the…

Morocco Alain Barry, managing director of MSD in Morocco, shares how the organization is partnering with the Moroccan healthcare community to ensure that patients have access to innovative therapies and vaccines.   Morocco has been a pioneer in the region in the field of immunization by introducing innovative vaccines in the…

Belgium Bertrand Duquesne, managing director of Boiron Belgium, elaborates on the challenges being faced by homeopathy manufacturers in western Europe and explains how the company and its peers are create dialogue about these products in the country with the newly formed Homeopathy Belgium Industry Association.   In 2017, 44 percent of…

Mexico CP Maria del Socorro España Lomeli, executive director of the Mexican generics industry association ANAFAM, discusses the challenges with regard to the ‘new rules of the game’ in Mexico’s healthcare sector since 2018, the willingness of the Mexican pharmaceutical industry to be a trusted ally to the public healthcare system,…

Czech Republic Roman Samiec, general manager of Thuasne Czech Republic, introduces the company as a key competitor in the medical devices field, with their niche products addressing the unmet medical need in the country including orthoses and homecare. Samiec describes the significant history of the French firm in the Czech Republic and…