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With spending on healthcare increasing in Malaysia, access to innovative drugs remains a challenge as the country juggles its dual public-private health system.

If you’re like us at PharmExec, you’ve been reading the news of potentially thawing US/Cuban relations, and you’re wondering, how long before the flag of Cuba graces the Hall of nations at BIO International Convention?

Under the voluntary 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme in the UK, member companies have to pay back if NHS spending on branded medicines goes over pre-agreed growth rates. With no growth allowed for 2014 and 2015, it was always going to be a matter of when and how much - not if - payments would be made.

Michael Scholl, Karl-Hubertus Gruber and Michael Marquardt look to the future of the immunodiagnostics market and see more consolidation ahead.

Once considered a healthcare backwater, Algeria's expanding pharmaceuticals market is taking the African continent by storm.

Despite recent changes in corporate tax law, Ireland remains an attractive partner in the development and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, writes Rory Mullen of IDA Ireland.

The European Union is moving ahead, in its own slightly crabwise fashion, with its attempts to work out what healthcare budgets should be used for. Reflector reports.

Agency's plan for reporting clinical trial data has sparked strong reactions from health campaigners, industry, and patients.

The Brazilian economy is being impacted by internal and external factors, and forecast figures are being quickly revised downwards. Hellen Berger reports.

The EMA might have expected that the publication of its plan for proactive release of clinical reports would receive a warm welcome. But, Reflector writes, it is far from a roaring success.

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Fabio Pammolli, selected by the European Commission to author a set of critical overviews on the pharma sector, talks about the need for a dramatic change in industrial strategy.

Pharm Exec talks with Dr. Sergio Pecorelli, Chairman of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA), an organization respected in global regulatory circles for its precedent-setting work on advanced cost-effectiveness metrics.

NICE's David Haslam discusses the UK drug watchdog's new challenge in meeting expectations around what quantitative calculations of value mean to patient access today.

Although progress has been made in bringing biosimilars to market, gaps in requirements for testing and documenting product similarity are still hampering the EU, U.S., and other regions, writes Jill Wechsler.

The EU may have a new monitoring scheme for Iceland's volatile geology, but it should also heed the volcano that could blow apart its assumptions on drug pricing and reimbursement, says Reflector.

Is sub-Saharan Africa a jewel box of untapped assets for a growth-obsessed big Pharma? Pharm Exec speaks with Steven Adjei, partner of an investment firm focused on opportunities in the region.

Spain's recession-battered pharma sector adapts to a changing market environment and repositions itself for a return to healthy growth through expanding opportunities abroad.

Leaders from industry, government, and the CRO community examine Ireland's future as a magnet for life science investments, and what the nation must do to remain the leading exporter of finished pharmaceutical products.

Tom Norton is watching with interest what the Canadians are about to visit on their generic industry, courtesy of a new international trade agreement.

2014 kicks off a defining period for healthcare in Chile as a new national drug law is implemented, with the hopes of creating a system that makes access to medicines easier and more transparent for patients.

Industry's grand vision for reshaping the life sciences in Europe may ultimately prove to be a lost cause.

This year's class of 15 young executives is deeply of the moment, with wide-ranging therapeutic, business, and operational expertise-all binded by an underlying commitment to the patient.

The Galien Foundation and the French government investment agency UBIFRANCE have partnered to establish UBISTART, a transatlantic payout for the best in start-up innovations. William Looney reports.

As the "Sovaldi Saga" unfolds in the U.S., it's clear the situation will only deteriorate. But north of the border, it's striking how Canadian healthcare entities are managing a similar Sovaldi situation, writes Tom Norton.

Poland's pharma industry, the largest in Central and Eastern Europe, confronts the fallout from the government's controversial 2012 Reimbursement Act.

Cross-sector partnership seeks support for a pan-European system to keep fake drugs out, but obstacles are many.

How big Pharma stalwarts can avoid a corrosive battle of attrition with local competitors and instead obtain the long-term goal of a stable pricing environment.

India must still be included in the list of promising potential markets for global pharma manufacturers, writes Jill E. Sackman and Michael Kuchenreuther.

Rare allies-innovator and generic pharmas-are calling for policy integration in Europe. But ideology and newfound scepticism on the merits of drugs in healthcare could complicate the effort.