Tag Archives: EU

Seeing Through the EU Transparency Directive

By Guest Blogger | Published: May 4, 2011
Reflector outlines why the EU’s so-called “transparency directive” has not set the industry on fire. For such a big subject, it is receiving little public attention. No matter how much pharma executives eulogise the heady prospects for personalised medicine or the protean potential of pharmacogenomics, everything all comes down, at the end of the day, to money. [...]
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Europe Unites Over Counterfeiting

By Guest Blogger | Published: February 28, 2011
Imitation may the sincerest form of flattery, but it isn’t always welcome. Particularly when the imitations are fakes through and through. That explains why Europe’s new rules to combat counterfeit medicines are winning such widespread applause, says Reflector. It isn’t customary for European Union legislation to win backing from all sides. Usually, there’s a large rump [...]
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Croatia: A New Hope for European Pharma?

By Guest Blogger | Published: February 24, 2011
With Croatia’s potential accession to the EU gathering pace, Beth Kennedy looks at the implications for pharma. The growth in overall healthcare expenditure in Croatia is slow and the percentage of GDP is expected to remain the same, but the country’s accession to the EU means that European pharma would have access to cheap products [...]
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Innovators: Take a Leaf from the Generic Industry Book

By Guest Blogger | Published: February 1, 2011
No-one can accuse the European generic industry of indolence. It supplies huge quantities of medicines to European healthcare suppliers — its volume is estimated at around a half of the market. It is accounting for a growing share of marketing authorization applications in Europe. And its industry association, the EGA, has turned it from being [...]
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Exclusive Interview: The European Medicine Agency's Thomas Lönngren

By William Looney | Published: December 14, 2010
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is a unique institution, pursuing a mandate shared with a complex web of national and regional groups, each able to place a distinctive imprint around the delicate task of certifying the safety and efficacy of new drugs. In return, EMA has made a virtue of necessity. It filled the regulatory [...]
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