Tagged with EALTH

LatAm Guilherme Marques, president of Siemens Healthineers LatAm, discusses the health tech giant’s regional strategy, covering how the firm rides out the region’s economic and political storms, its participation in disease screening campaigns, digitalisation uptake, oncology integration, and much more.   Despite the uncertainty of [LatAm] markets – due to inflation,…

Africa While HIV has shifted from a death sentence to a manageable disease in most developed nations, there are several reasons why it still represents a huge global issue. It remains highly infectious and difficult to detect in the early stages of infection, while existing treatments are unavailable or too expensive…

Germany Home to Europe’s largest pharma market, a host of industry giants, a thriving biotech scene, and a public healthcare system undergoing significant reform, Germany is indisputably one of the world’s most important life science nations.   An overview of the pharma industry in Germany. Made with Visme Infographic Maker   The…

Global Insights from US President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, who served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force at the height of the pandemic, on the end of COVID-19, the danger of China’s recent surge in cases, preparedness for future pandemics, and the misinformation in the US that…

USA After Big Pharma lobby groups suffered a major drug pricing blow earlier this year with the passage of the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), pharma industry heavyweight AbbVie is withdrawing its membership to leading industry trade groups PhRMA and BIO.   AbbVie Bows Out AbbVie is leaving both of the…

Egypt Building on a stellar career in pharma and medtech both in Egypt and internationally, Ahmed Ezz El-Din now serves as CEO of Cleopatra Hospitals Group, Egypt’s largest private hospital provider. Dr Ezz El-Din explains why implementing an organisational and management structure based on that of the pharma industry helps Cleopatra…

Egypt While universal health insurance is the talk of the town in Egypt today, private healthcare groups – serving up to 40 percent of the population in both the insurance and out-of-pocket markets – still have an important role to play. This role covers both providing high quality care to their…

USA Clinical trial diversity not only allows for a better understanding of the safety and efficacy of new therapies in population subgroups but also plays a significant role in reducing health inequities. In conversation with PharmaBoardroom, outgoing president and global chief executive of the Drug Information Association (DIA) Barbara Lopez Kunz,…

Egypt Neeraj Mishra of Alameda Healthcare, the largest private healthcare organisation in Egypt, outlines the organisation’s strategy for Egypt and Africa, how – as a provider of private hospitals – it fits into Egypt’s public healthcare transformation plans, as well as its work on digitalisation.   The opportunity is huge for…

Global The Access to Medicine Index, a biennial report that gauges the efforts of the world’s largest pharma companies to expand access in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), found in this year’s edition that the 20 companies surveyed have firmly responded to access issues exposed by COVID-19. GSK remains at the…

Mexico The Mexican Association of Pharmaceutical Research Industries (AMIIF) represents the innovative pharmaceutical industry in Mexico, advocating for innovation and promoting dialogue with local authorities. AMIIF’s Executive Director, Cristobal Thompson, discusses the country and the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and outlines Mexico’s healthcare challenges and how they have evolved…

UK National Health Service (NHS) England CEO Amanda Pritchard has raised concerns about the state of British healthcare in recent weeks and months, proclaiming that the NHS is in a worse place today than in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and that pressures on hospitals, maternity care and services…