11.09.2018
- British Health Minister Matt Hancock, in an interview with the London-based Times newspaper, has slammed the international pharmaceutical industry for trying to "rip off” UK...
05.09.2018
- Not only the pharmaceutical industry, but also EU member states are drawing up contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit. France and Germany are working as a team. While Paris looks...
27.08.2018
- The National Health Service (NHS) in England has given drugmakers and manufacturers of medical devices until Sept. 10 to advise on how they will stockpile their products made in...
30.11.2017
- In a provisional ruling announced on Nov. 21, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that Canadian pharma Concordia abused its dominant position to overcharge...
21.11.2017
- European pharmaceutical industry heavyweights Novartis and Bayer are challenging a proposal by parts of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to allow patients with wet age...
09.05.2017
- For as much as five months, US drugmaker Pfizer will provide its breast cancer drug palbociclib for free to the England arm of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The decision...
09.03.2017
- The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has accused Concordia and Actavis UK of breaking competition law by agreeing to delay competition and keeping the price of...
06.03.2017
- Britain's health agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which has responsibility for assessing the cost-effectiveness of medical treatments, has decided...