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Malaysia Wong Kin Sang, country manager of Lundbeck Malaysia, walks us through the mental health issues’ perception in Malaysia and the important work Lundbeck has done to bring more awareness to healthcare professionals and patients in the country. He also highlights his future plans for the affiliate to bring more innovative…

Turkey Despite the sharp decline in the Turkish lira’s value, the general mood among pharmaceutical executives in Turkey is positive. Rather than being discouraged, they are calling upon their resiliency and experience from former periods of economic fluctuation to push the Turkish healthcare and life sciences sector forward.   Turkey made…

Korea Professor Dukgeun Ahn of Seoul National University, trade policy advisor to the Ministry of Health offers his insights into the current policies towards the healthcare industry in Korea, and the potential implications for the US-Korea FTA renegotiations.   The rate [of ageing] in Korea is actually even more serious than…

Malaysia Dr Hyzan Mohd Yusof, CEO at OSA Technology, tells the story of how he founded the company to address Malaysia’s unmet needs in medical devices as well as his vision on the next steps the government should take to boost the sector.   Having our own manufacturing plant is a…

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…

Malaysia How Malaysia is setting itself up to provide biosimilars across the Islamic world as well as Asia.   Inno Bio Ventures, a Malaysian state-owned company originally set up to create drug security by ensuring that the country was self-sufficient in terms of medicine supply, has been making its first moves…

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…

Mexico Cristobal Thompson is the Executive Director at AMIIF (Asociacion Mexicana de Industrias de Investigacion Farmaceutica). The AMIIF represents more than 60 global companies with the aim of contributing to improving health in Mexico through innovative medicine. Here Cristobal discusses Mexico’s regulatory landscape and the countries advances in healthcare.    Mexico has…

France Thomas Courbe, general director of the DGE (Direction Générale des Entreprises – General Directorate for Enterprises), speaks about the role of the DGE and the implementation of new policies oriented towards France’s new pro-business direction, specifically in the life sciences industry.   France is becoming the pro-business model in Europe.…