Adrian Van Der Hoven joins panelists elaborating on the EU Pharma Package and the potential showdown with the pharma sector and called Europe out for being late to the Artificial Intelligence party.
When Ignasi Biosca-Reig heard there were shortages of amoxicillin in Spain, he quickly added shifts at his drug company’s factories to boost production of the popular antibiotic. But a few extra shifts was as far as he could go.
The generics industry is urging EU and national governments to show “leadership” and take immediate action against rising inflation, which has resulted in drug shortages and has put patients in need to the test.
Can the European Union bring eye-wateringly expensive medicines to the poorest parts of Europe, find cures for untreatable diseases, and solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance, all with a stroke of its pen?
Victor Mendonça, chair of the Generic Market Access Committee at Medicines for Europe, outlines why patient access to medicines is at risk due to intense price pressure and unprecedented inflation and proposes ways to tackle this.
Ahead of her session on “Manufacturing Excellence” at CPHI Frankfurt (1–3 November), Elisabeth Stampa, President of Medicines for Europe, along with Adrian van den Hoven, Director General of Medicines for Europe, map out the impact of EU supply chain regulation on pharma companies in an exclusive article for Manufacturing Chemist
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Inflation is at an all-time high, opening an opportunity for CDMOs to invest in potentially cheaper sustainable alternatives.
The generic drug industry lobby group Medicines for Europe on Tuesday sent an open letter to European Union member states’ energy and health ministers.