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USA Carla Smith outlines the role that a value-based care (VBC) approach can have on both reducing healthcare costs and improving overall care delivery to patients in the USA. Smith highlights VBC’s benefits to patients, payers and pharma companies, but notes that physicians are still not necessarily convinced; meaning the adoption…

Alzheimer's Alzheimer’s drugs represent a high-risk, high-reward proposition for global pharma. As David H. Crean recently wrote for PharmaBoardroom, “Except for one good piece of news in 2014 — for a dementia drug, Namzaric — there’s nothing by way of an FDA approval going back to 2002, 17 years of failure…

Taiwan Professor Chi-Hung Lin of NCTU discusses the opportunities and hurdles for unveiling smart healthcare in Taiwan. He also assesses Taiwan’s position in the global race for smart healthcare, and how supportive the authorities are proving in its embracement.   Smart healthcare is not just Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things…

Sweden Swecare Foundation is a platform where academia, public sector actors, and the private sector come together to promote the internationalization and export growth of Swedish healthcare and life sciences. Anna Riby, regional director East Asia, Shampa Bari, regional director South Asia and Cécilia Wismar, office manager/CEO assistant, explain how the…

Europe The European MidPharma Performance Ranking 2019 is taken from The Novasecta European Midpharma Report 2019, which examines how European mid-cap pharma companies are surviving and thriving. With scores assigned to R&D investment, commercial revenues and business development, this is a comprehensive list of the recent performance of some of Europe’s…

Opinion David H. Crean highlights R&D efforts and ongoing investments in Alzheimer’s disease treatments as we enter the month of June, brain awareness month.   Alzheimer’s disease is a complex chronic disease characterized biologically by the accumulation of extracellular protein plaques, neurofibrillary protein tangles, a loss of functional synaptic connections, and eventually…

China On May 30th, and with much fanfare, Pfizer Upjohn officially inaugurated its global headquarters in the heart of Shanghai, China. Following a global re-organization mid-2018, Pfizer now operates three business units, namely Innovative Medicines (including biosimilars and a new hospital business unit dealing with anti-infectives and sterile injectables), Consumer Healthcare,…

USA David Bearman makes the historical case to be once again considered as a medicine across the USA, noting that economic – rather than health – concerns were behind the creation of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 and continue to persist to this day.   With all this history, why…

Taiwan Dar-Bin Shieh, deputy minister of science and technology of the Republic of China (Taiwan), gives an overview of Biomedical Industry Innovation Program, enacted to bolster Taiwan’s biomedical and biotechnology sectors as part of the 5+2 Industrial Innovation Plan. Deputy Minister Shieh also elaborates on how Taiwan’s unique strengths in ICT,…

Egypt Dr Wafik Bardissi, chairman and CEO of Minapharm, the only company to offer biosimilars in Egypt, highlights how the company has successfully developed biotech know-how by partnering with and acquiring German companies. He also emphasizes the need for more local manufacturing and improving biosimilar infrastructure in Egypt.   As Minapharm…

Taiwan Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Jong-Chin Shen, outlines the initiatives implemented by the Ministry to help Taiwan’s industries reinforce their competitive advantage. Minister Shen also goes on to explain the Ministry’s specific role within the Biomedical Industry Innovation Promotion Program under the administration’s 5+2 Innovative Industries Policy.   Taiwan’s investment…

Spain Jaime Vives, managing director of Roche Diagnostics in Spain, discusses the digital solutions Roche Diagnostics is trying to roll out in Spain, the challenges involved, and the potential implications of digitalising healthcare   The first step into digitalization is to convince our customers to standardise their systems and the way…