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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…

Americas In 2019 the pharma industry financed some 700 clinical studies in Latin America with investments of more than USD one billion and according to FIFARMA, the leading association of innovators in the region, LatAm currently supports about 10 percent of the world’s clinical research. Local industry leaders discuss the advantages…

LatAm A breakdown of the investments made by the pharmaceutical industry in clinical studies across the Latin American region. According to the US National Library of Medicine’s ClinicalTrials.gov, USD 1.1 billion were invested in 2019 with Mexico, Brazil and Argentina at the head of the LatAm countries where these investments were…

Global After an almost 20-year career in Big Pharma culminating in a role as president of AstraZeneca UK, Lisa Anson took the leap into the biotech world to lead what at the time was an ailing business, UK-based Redx Pharma. Having transformed Redx into the thriving biotech that it is today,…

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…

UK Pricing and market access have become increasingly hot topics in recent years, as healthcare systems across the world attempt to balance their own financial sustainability with securing the latest medical innovations and the premium costs associated with them. Health inequity and access disparities exist between both rich and developing countries,…

LatAm As selected by the Generics & Biosimilars Initiative (GABI), these are the top ten pharma companies ranked by turnover in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico for 2021. As the chart shows, the Argentinian and Brazilian Top Tens are dominated by domestic companies, while multinationals hold sway in Colombia and…

Brazil Renata Mihich, a 25-year DHL veteran, recently took on a new role as Head of LatAm for Italian healthcare logistics specialist BOMI GROUP. At a moment of career transformation, BOMI GROUP is also on the verge of a big change with UPS Healthcare acquiring the company earlier this year. Mihich…

Egypt Country President, Hatem Werdany, provides an overview of AstraZeneca’s 50+ year legacy in Egypt and outlines the company’s plans to launch up to 25 new products there over the next three years in areas such as respiratory disease and breast cancer, and its intention to expand  local manufacturing capabilities. He…

Brazil Rolf Hoenger describes how Roche is driving access and awareness for innovative medicines in Latin America and weighs in on a number of important topics, from regulatory harmonisation in the region to digitalisation, clinical trials, Roche’s ongoing global transformation, and how inter-industry collaboration can foster true progress in healthcare.  …

Brazil After a successful international career, Andre Vivan da Silva recently returned to his native Brazil to become GSK’s country manager. He explains the importance of vaccination, in Brazil, and HIV in a country where GSK’s products treat at least half of its HIV patients. He also speaks about the company’s…

Brazil Although Brazil is one of the world’s top pharma markets, with the highest market value in Latin America, and has made major strides towards universal healthcare, the country continues to recover from its worst recession ever and the fallout from its disastrous COVID-19 response. Brazilian voters are preparing for a…