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After a prolonged period of relative stagnation, the strategically influential, clinically rich French life sciences market suddenly seems to be rediscovering its mojo-thrusting the pharma and medtech sectors into the spotlight.

Purdue Pharma and its corporate leadership featured prominently in the media recently as litigation mounts over their sales and marketing of Oxycontin. Nir Kossovsky offers some observations about the lessons this situation provides for all corporate leaders responsible for their companies’ reputations.

With Spain now squarely on the road to economic recovery following the ravages of the global financial crisis, multinational pharmaceutical companies are seeing the country as a top-tier investment destination once more.

The Institute for Clinical Effectiveness Review (ICER) has set up a working group to bring together the expertise of NICE and other key HTAs to develop new methods to guide value-based pricing of potential cures. Leela Barham reports.

DIA Europe proves to have excellent timing to learn more about the latest developments in drug development, the current status of Brexit, the plans of the National regulators and EMA, on-going discussions on pan-European HTA, and the trends for 2019.

Despite market access hurdles, Turkey’s pharmaceutical market holds tremendous growth potential-in both value and volume. But will the country be able to take that final step in creating a regulatory and economic environment that is conducive to further upward development?

Strategic management of the supply chain is vital to winning with customers. Cost and quality are important, but they are not the only things customers care about: New services, flexibility in relationships, supply reliability, and creatively overcoming obstacles in delivery of products are also core values. Pharmaceutical product portfolios and customers are becoming more complex. To stay ahead, customer-focused supply-chain capabilities is becoming an increasingly crucial part of a company’s competitive advantage.