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The president of compliance services discusses the company’s recent expansion into new markets.
Country Report: The Netherlands
March 1st 2016The Dutch healthcare system, dubbed today as a “laboratory for change,” is in the midst of reinventing itself around collaborations with industry and government in such areas as market and patient access, transparency, cost-effectiveness, and process innovation.
The Staying Power of Emerging Markets
February 8th 2016Whatever used to be wrong with the world of big Pharma could be fixed with a single tag phrase: emerging country markets. Most of the majors have invested heavily in this geographic segment, and the biggest of the big-companies like Novartis-now rely on it for more than a quarter of their global sales. Like all good things, however, there are shadows amidst the sunlight, and the task of turning volume sales into sustainable profits is getting harder.
Feeling the Heat: Pharm Exec's 2016 Industry Forecast
January 29th 2016It’s easy to foresee controversy in 2016 as lagging global economic growth and a messy US political slugfest force the pharma industry’s feet to the fire. Can the industry reclaim a semblance of public approval by confronting its pricing demons and focusing on innovation and a fresh, patient-first message?
Colombia: Portage to Latin America?
December 8th 2015Senior Editor Casey McDonald visits with industry and regulatory officials in Bogotá to discuss colombia’s strategy for growing its life sciences enterprise, and whether it can be a stable force amid the region’s historically challenging macroeconomic and political fluctuations.
Europe Under Pressure: Gearing Up for a Year of Regulatory Convergence
November 30th 2015In the last year regulatory authorities sharpened their focus on gathering more data and on achieving transparency and harmonization. Erick Gaussens reviews 2015 and looks at companies’ need to respond to converging demands in 2016.
The Push for a Pull Supply Chain
November 9th 2015In Pharm Exec’s 2013 end-of-year supply chain roundup, we began with a three-word vision of the immediate future that left little room for ambiguity: “Serialization is coming.” With the impending laws regarding “track and trace” promising to alter the way pharmaceuticals are packaged and shipped, we outlined how global pharma was gearing up to deal with the effects of serialization, and how companies needed to review their own internal practices and those of their outsourcing partners, as the need for technology solutions for both sides of the outsourc
Licensing Approval in Europe: New Options for a New Era
October 8th 2015In the midst of a leadership vacuum at the European Medicines Agency, Pharm Exec talks with the organization’s top medical officer, Hans-Georg Eichler, about its potentially game-changing drug approval program-one designed to balance safety requirements with faster patient access to the strong science now emerging from industry labs.