Tag Archives: Europe

FT Healthcare Conference: Society as Stakeholder

By Ben Comer | Published: June 13, 2013
Speakers at the 2nd annual Financial Times US Healthcare and Life Sciences conference in New York last week discussed the cost of health, and the implications of an increasingly vocal and influential stakeholder group: the local populace. After opening remarks from Andrew Jack, FT’s prolific pharmaceuticals correspondent, Pfizer CEO Ian Read took the stage at the [...]
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European Clinical Trials Policy Gets Caught Up in Politics

By Guest Blogger | Published: June 3, 2013
The latest stage of Europe’s attempt to update its clinical trials rules offered a mildly distressing spectacle of the intrusion of politics into policy, writes Peter O’ Donnell. It is inevitable, of course, that legislation should be colored by politics in any democracy, since legislators, being elected, are by nature political animals. But in an area [...]
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First 'Real' European Patent Imminent

By Guest Blogger | Published: May 8, 2013
It’s exciting times for patents in Europe. Not everyone’s excitement is pleasurable, but there’s certainly plenty going on, writes Reflector, Pharm Exec’s EU correspondent. Much of the excitement is linked to the imminent advent of Europe’s first real European patent. After decades of failed attempts, by the beginning of 2014 the European Union will finally have [...]
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Healthcare Systems in Europe "Failing Patients"

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 27, 2013
By Reflector, Brussels correspondent. Any complacency that the world of healthcare might be feeling about advances in the ability to treat patients suffered a head-on assault in Dublin, Ireland, last week, at a conference organized under the auspices of the Irish Presidency of the European Union and featuring a galaxy of Irish and European stars from [...]
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Europe: Countdown Time for the Innovative Medicines Initiative?

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 4, 2013
Momentum is gathering in Brussels for real battles over carving up the 1 trillion dollars that the European Union has now agreed to spend between the end of this year and the end of the decade. The constituencies jostling for funding include farmers and foreign aid workers, teachers and train operators, and legislators and local [...]
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