UAE Maher Abouzeid gives his expert insights into the key trends underway in the Middle Eastern medtech industry, including growing numbers of PPPs, the rise of the digital hospital post-COVID, and greater interaction with the pharma sector. The positive side of COVID is that it helped accelerate the transformation of…
Italy Ipsen’s Stephane Brocker discusses a transformational period for the iconic French mid-cap in recent years, how this has played out in Italy, and emergent trends – such as hybrid digital/in-person physician interactions – that have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic period. Brocker also touches on Italy’s relevance to the global…
China Writing in the March 2022 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Jessie Zhu of Deltamed Co. Ltd./Pharmaron Clinical and Monica Juping Xu of Taimei Medical Technology outline the progress of pharmacovigilance standards in China, and make the call for greater levels of digitalisation and training. Since China joined ICH…
Italy Italy is a key destination for global clinical trial programs with EUR 700 million invested in 2020 alone according to national industry association Farmindustria, bringing access to medicines, knowledge, skills, and economic benefits. Here, Italy country managers from some of the world’s leading pharma companies weigh in on the pros…
China A selection of recent top stories from the Chinese pharma industry, including China’s conditional approval of Pfizer’s COVID treatment pill Paxlovid; a new push to combat monopoly practices and unfair competition in the domestic industry; and US FDA concerns about the applicability of Chinese clinical trial results for the US…
Global Merck Group’s Vice President Global Market Access & Pricing Strategic Planning Marco Rauland casts his eye over blockchain-based smart contracts and their applications for pharma across supply chain enhancement, improving clinical trials, and outcome-based contracting. Smart contracts are self-executing digital contracts based on blockchain technology that provides decentralized data…
Global Less than two months passed between the WHO’s official pandemic declaration and remdesivir’s emergency use authorisation in the United States in May 2020. Today, the intravenous antiviral, sold by Gilead Sciences under the brand name Veklury, has generated over USD 8 billion in sales. Remdesivir’s success as a treatment…
Spain Madrid’s Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, explains in detail how the Autonomous Community executed a different COVID-19 strategy from other Spanish regions, following a “basic health zones” model, why it might be too soon to speak about “flu-isation”, and their plan to boost home hospitalisation and telemedicine. We…
Global Writing in the February edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Candice Del Rio of Curavit Clinical Research examines the applicability of decentralised clinical trials in oncology research, and their positive impact on both decreasing patient dropout rates and increasing patient engagement. Oncology represents the largest research area globally, with 6.5 percent…
USA Pfizer and MSD recently became the latest companies to have COVID-19 treatments authorised by either the US FDA or EMA. Their oral antiviral drugs joined several monoclonal antibodies and others on the list of options available to patients in Europe and the United States. Here is an updated list of…
Asia-Pacific Stewart Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, West Pharmaceutical Services, highlights how the drug containment and delivery system industry is evolving to meet the rapidly changing needs of Asian biopharma; West’s crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 and how it met surging demands for injectable packaging in…
Italy Gilead Sciences’ vice president and general manager for Italy, Valentino Confalone, outlines the company’s tumultuous pandemic journey in one of the first global epicentres; the role that Italy played in the early studies of remdesivir as a treatment against severe COVID-19 disease; how Gilead is working to eliminate viral Hepatitis…
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