Tag Archives: European Union

European Pharma 1981-2011: Survival of the Fittest?

By Guest Blogger | Published: October 5, 2011
This month sees Pharmaceutical Executive magazine reach its 30th birthday. In line with that milestone, Reflector assesses what the last three decades have meant for European pharma — and shows how the game has changed beyond recognition. Thirty years is a long time in any industry. The coalmining industry, the market for air travel, or telecommunications [...]
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Europe: Into the HTA Fray

By Guest Blogger | Published: July 27, 2011
Reflector finds some surprising common ground in what should be two very different HTA reports. Just like with buses, you wait for ages for an international review of health technology assessment to come along, then two turn up at once.
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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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Is Hungary Hungry Enough for Pharma?

By Guest Blogger | Published: January 26, 2011
Hungary has taken over the chair of the EU Council, but European pharma is unlikely to gain much from its surface enthusiam, writes Reflector. A new, young, and supposedly business-friendly democracy has swung into European action this month. Hungary, one of the most recent countries to join the European Union, took over the chair of the [...]
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EU Health Commissioner Emerges from the Dark

By Julian Upton | Published: December 13, 2010
After a period of near invisibility, the EU’s health commissioner John Dalli has begun to make some higher profile appearance. Pharm Exec’s Europe correspondent Reflector assesses how these have been received by the pharma industry. Just before the holiday break, John Dalli, the European Union’s unobtrusive commissioner for health, has at last emerged from obscurity to [...]
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