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Germany's use of reference pricing for biologics: lessons for the US
5 December 2022 - A redesign of consumer cost sharing in the US is important to accelerate the adoption of biosimilars ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2022
Early breast cancer: indication of a minor additional clinical benefit of adjuvant therapy with olaparib
1 December 2022 - Adjuvant treatment with olaparib can prolong life and prevent recurrence in early breast cancer. However, it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Nov 2022
Advanced cervical cancer: pembrolizumab prolongs life
2 November 2022 - There is a hint of a major added benefit compared to chemotherapy with cisplatin or carboplatin, each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2022
Evidence based drug delivery for rare diseases: the role of digitisation
25 October 2022 - Digitisation has potential when it comes to making clinical development for the care of rare diseases more ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2022
Germany significantly tightens drug pricing and reimbursement laws
26 October 2022 - The German regulation of pricing and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals is probably one of the most complicated legal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2022
Palbociclib combination in advanced breast cancer: again only disadvantages
5 October 2022 - For post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative breast cancer in the first line, there is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Sep 2022
Is IQWiG's 15% threshold universally applicable in assessing the clinical relevance of patient reported outcomes changes? An ISPOR Special Interest Group report.
8 September 2022 - To assess the clinical relevance of patient reported outcomes, a response threshold of ≥ 15% of the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2022
Availability of new medicines in the US and Germany (2004 - 2018)
30 August 2022 - In this cohort study comparing 599 medicine approvals in the US and Germany between 2004 and 2018, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2022
The EU HTA regulation: a new frontier for access to innovative technologies
23 August 2022 - A new health technology regulation is due to be applied to help EU countries determine the effectiveness ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2022
Advanced oesophageal carcinoma: nivolumab in combination with chemotherapy or ipilimumab prolongs life compared to chemotherapy alone
1 August 2022 - The additional clinical benefit cannot be quantified because the data on health status and health-related quality ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2022
German Government announces bill to drastically slash drug reimbursement
19 July 2022 - On 8 July 2022, the German Health Ministry has officially shared the second edition of a new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jun 2022
Post-menopausal osteoporosis: advantages of teriparatide over risedronate sodium
2 June 2022 - Preliminary report on the comparative benefit assessment of bisphosphonates, teriparatide and denosumab is available. Please submit ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2022
Application accompanying data collection in the case of market access for several active substances in a class: IQWiG presents a concept
27 May 2022 - The institute recommends platform studies under a master's protocol. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2022
EUnetHTA relative effectiveness assessments: efforts to increase usability, transparency and inclusiveness
26 May 2022 - The objective of the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) Joint Action 3 (JA3) was to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 May 2022
G-BA certifies active ingredients against breast and oesophageal cancer as having a high additional benefit
19 May 2022 - The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has rated the patient-relevant additional benefit of two active ingredients for cancer ...