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Hungary Hungarian patients currently experience longer wait times and more limited access to subsidised innovative medicines than their neighbours in Bulgaria and Slovakia.leading some organisations to urge the government to increase funding and shorten approval times.   According to the Hungarian Association of Innovative Pharma Manufacturers, since 2016 only 48 new…

USA Carla Smith looks at the various cybersecurity risks that exist across the US healthcare continuum and the steps that executive leadership can take to combat this threat.   Keeping patient data safe and secure remains a challenge. Thanks to a 9-year review of experiences in the United States, we know…

USA The US drug-price watchdog, The Institute for Clinical & Economic Review (ICER) recently issued a “Report on Unsupported Price Increases,” picking a number of innovative medicines that it says have seen price hikes without sufficient substantiation. While the study made the headlines, Certara’s Ulrich Neumann calls for some scepticism and…

China China-born entrepreneurs are returning to their homeland to find an industry filled with incentives in place for innovation, independent of generics. Here, we highlight five unique biotechs looking to serve the unmet needs of patients with their cutting-edge technologies in cardiology, immunology and more.   Adagene Adagene’s founder and CEO…

Pharma Market Poland is by far the largest pharma market in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, with a total value of EUR 6.352 billion for 2017. The Czech Republic is in second place, followed by Romania and Hungary Made with Visme Infographic Maker     The CEE countries that exported…

Generics Christoph Stoller, general manager for Austria and Germany at Teva was recently elected president of Medicines for Europe, the continent-wide association for the generics and biosimilars industries. Stoller plans to focus his efforts on improving access to generics and biosimilars in Europe, as well as tackling the damaging issue of…

Opinion Within the pharmaceutical space, Eurasia Group’s Aditya Bhattacharji expects politics to drive significant changes in regulatory and legal affairs. He explains how the evolving dynamics can be characterized by two themes.   Regulatory Right-Sizing The status quo is highly unlikely to hold in the regulatory space. The growing and largely…

UAE The top 10 pharma companies in the UAE ranked by 2018 sales according to IQVIA data. Swiss giant Novartis leads the way with USD 196 million in sales, followed by GSK on 129 million and AstraZeneca with 126 million.   Made with Visme Infographic Maker

Oncology Cancer is on the rise in Hungary and survival rates are considerably lower than the European average. The country’s innovative pharma association has taken the initiative to suggest measures that it believes would drastically improve cancer mortality rates and quality of life for oncology patients.   Recent statistics show that…

Europe Christoph Stoller, the recently appointed president of Medicines for Europe, outlines the mission of his presidency, how the association and its members are working to tackle the issue of drug shortages across the continent, and the crucial importance of establishing a high-level dialogue between industry and governments. Adrian van den…

Sweden Swedish firm Orexo AB, despite its relatively small stature, is playing a major role in combating one of the USA’s biggest public health emergencies – the opioid crisis.   Orexo, most widely known for its opioid dependence drugs, was founded in 1995 in Uppsala, Sweden. Its top-selling product is Zubsolv,…

Opinion Professor Jackie Hunter looks at why the pharmaceutical industry has been so slow to adopt artificial intelligence-based technologies and makes a prediction for the industry’s future, including a significantly increased amount of interplay between large technology and pharma companies.   The past two decades have seen an explosion of biomedical…