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Celltrion’s Remsima SC launches in Netherlands
7 May 2020 - Subcutaneous rheumatoid arthritis treatment Remsima SC launched in the Netherlands, its third European market, Celltrion Healthcare ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2020
Why a decades old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against COVID-19
14 April 2020 - In the desperate search for ammunition to fend off the COVID-19 pandemic, a decades old tuberculosis ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2020
Five pillars for societal perspective
31 January 2020 - In economic evaluation, the healthcare perspective has gradually given way to use of the societal perspective, as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2019
Dutch authorities hand over final building to EMA in Amsterdam
15 November 2019 - Today, the Dutch authorities have handed over to EMA its newly built tailor-made premises, located in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2019
DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?
15 October 2019 - If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Sep 2019
Dutch experience demonstrates effective benchmarking of biosimilar use in health systems
31 August 2019 - As medicines become more numerous and often more expensive, health care professionals seek new ways to understand ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Dutch health minister threatens to name and shame pharma over prices
28 August 2019 - In an unusual move, the Netherlands health minister wrote an open letter to the pharmaceutical industry ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Dutch minister warns big pharma to come clean on drugs prices
27 August 2019 - Health minister Bruno Bruins has warned the pharmaceuticals industry that he considers the way drugs firms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Implementation of “coverage with evidence development” drug approval strategies found lacking
15 July 2019 - Lessons from early deployments in The Netherlands. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 May 2019
Will drugs companies follow EU agency from London to Amsterdam?
16 May 2019 - Amid the bustling skyscrapers of London’s Canary Wharf, one building stands silent and shuttered — a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2019
Taxpayers are funding expensive drug development, report says
10 May 2019 - The Dutch government invests tens of millions of euros every year in small biotech companies which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Apr 2019
Beneluxa: what are the prospects for collective bargaining on pharmaceutical prices given diverse health technology assessment processes?
23 April 2019 - The Beneluxa collaboration is an initiative aimed at securing sustainable access to new medicines. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Apr 2019
Conditional financing of drugs in the Netherlands: past, present, and future—results from stakeholder interviews
8 April 2019 - It is long known that managed entry agreements may offer decision makers valuable policy options to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Apr 2019
AbbVie's massive Humira discounts are stifling Netherlands biosimilars
2 April 2019 - Could a drug's price ever be too low? That’s what some market-watchers are asking in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Mar 2019
EMA now operating from Amsterdam
11 March 2019 - As of today, EMA is operating from Amsterdam. ...