Payers are not overly worried about the cost of bladder cancer, due to the relatively small patient population in comparison to other solid tumors.
Kalbe Farma is the leading player by some margin, with a market share of 13% in 2011, while GlaxoSmithKline is the largest foreign player with a 3% share.
Payers and governments are striving toward cost-effective treatment outcomes and more efficient care, and waves of new digital health technologies are offering patients unprecedented opportunities to be more engaged in their own health management.
Prescribing by international non-proprietary name, pharmacist incentives, and the high price differential between the brands and their generic alternatives are the key drivers of the generics market in the UK.
It is now some 35 years since the passage of the first law designed specifically to encourage investment in the discovery and development of rare disease treatments. Activity in the sector has been transformed since then.
Biosimilars have been available in Europe for over a decade, and have offered the opportunity to vastly reduce the cost of treatment for a large number of biologic agents.
The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) was held in Chicago, IL from May 31st through June 4th, 2019. This year’s conference was highly varied, with key data presented for drugs in numerous different classes and indications.
Pricing and reimbursement processes are closely connected in Japan, with drug pricing largely dependent on innovation. However, achieving premium pricing is difficult, thereby limiting sales potential.
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the market access climate in emerging pharmaceutical markets. Focusing in particular on the E7 countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey), it charts recent developments, assesses their potential impact on market access, and pinpoints areas in which further change is anticipated.
Diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) offer considerable opportunity to drug developers and marketers.
The prostate cancer market has become saturated in the metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) setting; the approval of second-generation antiandrogens, radiotherapies, and chemotherapies has resulted in a great deal of development targeting earlier stages of the disease.
As a supplement to our well-known quarterly Outlook report, Biomedtracker is pleased to present a longer-term look at some key late-stage drugs projected to hit the market in 2020.
Over the last two decades, clinical care of hemophilia has improved significantly, extending the life expectancy for this patient population closer to that of the general population. The emergence of virally inactivated plasma-derived clotting factors and then of recombinant clotting factor replacement therapy in the 1980s has revolutionized care for these patients.
Data indicates that companies often favor Germany when choosing a reference member state (RMS) in order to gain approval under the decentralized procedure, perhaps reflecting overall a fast pace of regulatory review.
Historically Japan has been plagued with delays, with new drug approvals sometimes taking three or four years longer than in the US and EU.
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