Tagged with diabetes

Korea Global medtech giant Medtronic is hoping that its latest acquisition – EOFlow, a South Korean wearable insulin patch maker – will enhance its competitiveness in the global diabetes market.   The acquisition deal, as reported by Hyun-Ah Oh from Korea Economic Daily, involves the purchase of all shares held by…

Belgium Dr Frank Nobels, one of Belgium’s leading endocrinologists and diabetologists, introduces the Belgian Diabetes Forum – a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to create efficient policy engagement in diabetes and make better prevention of diabetes, better care and a higher level of well-being for people with diabetes a reality. Dr Nobels…

Belgium Eli Lilly Belgium’s Frederic Clais discusses the potential impact of upcoming reform of the country’s access and reimbursement system, the country’s enduring relevance to the company as home to its European Clinical Trial Services (ELECTS) division, and his aim to reach 200,000 patients in Belgium with Lilly treatments before the…

USA After considerable government pressure to reduce insulin costs in the US, Eli Lilly recently slashed its prices by as much as 70 percent, followed by competitors Novo Nordisk and Sanofi. While these steps to make insulin more affordable, together with the US Medicare insulin price cap that came into effect…

Africa Diabetes is a significant, and growing, problem in Africa, making access to insulin products a regional imperative. Some important progress is being made, including a new deal between US giant Eli Lilly and Egyptian group EVA Pharma. The agreement will allow Lilly products to be manufactured in, and for, the…

Greece Novo Nordisk veteran and president of Greece’s leading industry organisation, the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE), Olympios Papadimitriou speaks to PharmaBoardroom about the impact of the country’s economic comeback on the pharma industry, the challenges of Greece’s clawback system, the Recovery and Resilience funds that will be dedicated in…

LatAm Novo Nordisk’s Latin America lead Allan Finkel outlines the “alarming” burden of diabetes and obesity in his region, the progress that has been made via national campaigns against diabetes, and why countries in LatAm need to recognise obesity as the disease it is considering its heavy impact on patients’ lives…

Spain Lilly’s Nabil Daoud highlights the evolution in the firm’s Spanish manufacturing and R&D footprint in recent years, discussed launch plans for its next-generation diabetes and obesity treatments, and outlines some of the key trends currently impacting healthcare in Spain.   Four years ago, a molecule discovered and designed by scientists…

Italy Lilly’s president and general manager for its Italy hub, Huzur Devletsah, explains the company’s broad footprint in the country – where Lilly maintains a large manufacturing site that produces over half of their global insulin output and from which it oversees 28 countries. In addition, she comments on the upcoming…

Saudi Arabia Melvin D’Souza outlines the strategy that Novo Nordisk Saudi Arabia – the country’s market leader in diabetes care, obesity, hemophilia, and growth hormone treatment – is following and analyzes the potential impact of local content enhancement for the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 healthcare transformation plans.   The fact that Novo Nordisk…

Denmark Although Zealand Pharma has been around for 23 years, it has made rapid progress since French national Emmanuel Dulac took the helm as president and CEO in April 2019, with a first new drug application (NDA) and approval, a first in-licensing, and two acquisitions.   Dulac – a veteran of…

Global On the 100th anniversary of the development of insulin, regular PharmaBoardroom contributor Brendan Shaw* examines the shocking global disparities in access to the lifesaving drug, but does not point the finger of blame at the pharmaceutical industry. Instead, Shaw highlights the high barriers of entry that dissuade these companies from…