Category Archives: Regulatory

Nothing is Rotten in the State of Denmark

By Julian Upton | Published: March 2, 2010
Guest blog by Reflector, Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent. Denmark is still on the fringes of some European Union policies. Notably, it has not yet embraced the euro as a currency, and it keeps its distance from the common defence policy. But in one respect, its pharmaceutical industry has just shown that it is well abreast [...]
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US and Europe At Risk from Substandard Medicines

By Julian Upton | Published: February 25, 2010
Guest blog by Helen Disney, Chief Executive and Founder of the Stockholm Network, a pan-European think tank. When most of us look at taking a new medicine we tend to think it will make us better. Some of us may think about possible side effects but few of us expect the medicines we take to actually [...]
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Obama Reveals Healthcare Reform Plan

By Jill Wechsler | Published: February 22, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The health reform proposal unveiled by the White House on Feb. 22, 2010 retains a number of provisions that directly affect drug coverage and industry revenues. The plan highlights that it will close the Medicare drug benefit “doughnut hole” by 2020 to make drugs more affordable to the elderly. Seniors will get some [...]
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Europe: Of Apes and Ombudsmen

By Julian Upton | Published: February 17, 2010
Guest blog by Reflector, Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent. This column has frequently drawn attention to the complexities of getting anything done in Europe. A brilliant researcher can explore visionary horizons, an ambitious entrepreneur can offer a package of goods or services of inestimable value, but the degree of control and regulation becomes more intense [...]
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Europe: Not Out of the Antitrust Woods Yet

By Julian Upton | Published: January 14, 2010
Guest blog from Pharm Exec Europe’s Brussels correspondent, Reflector. The new year has started with a grim reminder that last year’s heat over competition in the European pharmaceutical sector has not been dissipated by the winter’s frosts. Before January was a week old, the European Commission (EC) announced that it had opened a formal antitrust [...]
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