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Mission Critical: Innovation and American Business
On the heels of President Obama’s unveiling of the American Jobs Act, Synta Pharmaceuticals CEO Safi Bahcall – who attended the president’s jobs speech last week as a special guest of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) – spoke to Pharmaceutical Executive about the role of government in supporting innovation.
Posted in Europe, FDA, Global, IP, R&D, Regulatory, Strategy, healthcare, leadership Tagged innovation 1 Comment
A Blueprint for FDA Reform
The FDA five-year strategy emphasizes a more coordinated—and skeptical—response to globalization of the drug supply chain. On balance, the strategy continues to focus more on managing risk than assessing benefit—industry take heed.
Earlier this month, FDA released a five-year, forward-looking strategic priorities report—“Responding to the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century”—that outlines what the industry [...]
Value-Based Pricing Could Counter Innovation, Says UK Think Tank
The UK government’s proposals to introduce value-based pricing (VBP) — which aims to create a stronger link between the price the National Health Service pays for a medicine and the value it delivers (and in the process, ostensibly, further incentivize therapeutic innovation) — could actually serve to ‘hinder’ innovation, according to a UK think tank.
Posted in Europe, Global, R&D, pricing Also tagged Pharma, PPRS, reimbursement, Stockholm Network, UK, value-based pricing Leave a comment
'Freedom of Thought' Key to Middle East Science Progress
A new report from Thomson Reuters points to a “rapidly changing context for science and innovation in the Middle East.”
The Arabian, Persian and Turkish Middle East may currently produce only 4% of the world’s scientific literature, but the output is growing rapidly, according to a new Global Research Report from Thomson Reuters. Indeed, countries such [...]
Posted in Emerging Markets, Global Also tagged Arabia, Egypt, Islamic, Libya, Middle East, Persia, Turkey Leave a comment
The Seven-Billion Society: What's In It For Pharma?