Regulatory

Highly skilled pharma staff are obliged to devote hours to routine administrative tasks updating product information. Technology can free them from this burden, writes Dr. Jutta Hohenhörst.

Rapid growth in Medicare spending on prescription drugs is prompting a leading advisory group to recommend significant revisions in how the government pays for medicines under Part D and Part B

Despite enthusiasm from payers and pharma companies for innovative drug reimbursement strategies linked to positive patient responses, negotiating such deals is no easy business.

There’s a stampede to relate prices to broader health benefits, but little consensus on how to do so, writes Jill Wechsler.

Sharing un-redacted inspection reports between FDA and EMA may reduce duplicate inspections of facilities.

Radicals who wield real power at the EMA have gone public with their thinking about the role of regulators in the economic aspects of medicines provision – despite the decades-old EU taboo about linking pricing with authorizations.

There’s a stampede to relate prices to broader health benefits, but little consensus on how to do so, writes Jill Wechsler.

California is in the process of potentially establishing a new, disruptive healthcare policy that is proving to be very concerning to the American Rx industry, writes Tom Norton.

NHS England head Simon Stevens believes the UK's PPRS needs significantly updating.

Eleanor Biggs looks at the biggest uncertainties facing the pharma industry if the UK were to leave the EU.

We desperately need new anti-infective drugs to avoid life threatening infections. Let’s make that happen by punishing companies who don’t invest in R&D for these specific drugs.

Is a more "light-touch" appraisal process the key to getting the UK's NICE to do more with less? Leela Barham reports.

Pharm Exec’s 10th annual Brand of the Year is Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo, which has raced into the lead position in the treatment-shifting immuno-oncology space behind launches in three key cancers-melanoma, lung, and renal.

Election-year activities may stall the passage of biomedical innovation bill in 2016.

The dilemma continues: Which medicines should Europe's health systems pay for – and how much should they pay?

The Boston biotech cluster proved an ideal setting for Pharm Exec's recent annual Editorial Advisory Board meeting, with the prevailing message that even the best environments for innovation require constant nurturing.

Policymakers seek to limit prescribing while also encouraging innovative R&D.

The liver disease non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has become a priority for the healthcare industry – and, potentially, a multi-billion-dollar market. The race is now to develop the first effective pharmacotherapy to treat it.

April 12, 2016.

Despite research by eminent scientists as to the safety and benefits of immunization for children and adults, the anti-vaccine film "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” has all the emotional elements to convince millions that vaccines are unsafe and dangerous, writes Jill Wechsler.

The courts, pharma, and policymakers push FDA to rethink communications policy.

Just as insurers and regulators have sought to tamp down compounding costs and utilization, observers have begun to acknowledge that the practice may serve as an antidote to spiraling drug prices. John S. Linehan reports.

NICE's notion to charge the industry for its technology appraisals looks set to become reality, writes Leela Barham.

Doctors and oncologists agree with pharma companies in opposing the latest proposal from the CMS to revise how it pays for drugs administered in doctors’ offices.

Elvis Pacela asks why the prospect of harmonized content is so challenging, and what can pharma companies learn from other sectors about more optimal, modern ways of working and sharing data?

Ambry Genetics' CEO discusses his company's decision to release the genetic information of its customers for free-a rare move, reportedly, for a commercial testing firm.

More generics and biosimilars may generate competition - but FDA opposes broad compounding, writes Jill Wechsler.

President Obama’s year-old, $200 million Precision Medicine initiative (PMI) seems to be doing exactly what was intended, writes Heather Gartman.

Clinical trials are challenging because pain is subjective, making it hard to define objective endpoints or to compare one drug to another.

Various factors have altered the landscape for exchange of information on drugs and medical products, but the FDA has not kept pace in updating its rules governing what marketers can say about their therapies, writes Jill Wechsler.