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Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2007 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: If It Ain't Broke Under the UK's pricing scheme, drug prices have dropped by 21% in 10 years. Is it really time for a change?
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2011 Julian Upton	UK Stakeholders Have Their Say on Value-Based Pricing The UK coalition government's consultation on the intro of value-based pricing has invited caution and resistance.
Chemistry World March 20, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	UK Drug Firms to Slash Research and Jobs The UK pharmaceutical industry is expecting to cut jobs and investment in R&D following an alarming slump in confidence in the UK market.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2008 Sarah Houlton	Jumping the Gun The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British government have come up with a solution for price regulation that isn't as bad as the industry had feared.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2012	Value-Based Pricing: Too High a Price for UK Pharma? Changes to the system in the UK could finally put some real metrics behind the elusive concept of value but with payers clearly in the driver's seat, who needs clarity?
Chemistry World November 21, 2008 Pete Mitchell	UK drug price deal finalised The new deal is guaranteed to continue for five years - a great relief to the industry.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Not So NICE A new manifesto by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry is designed to improve drug access in the UK, where industry has worried for years about poor uptake of new medicines.
Chemistry World March 17, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	UK to fast-track access to critical medicines Critically ill patients in the UK could receive new medicines before they are formally approved under a new scheme beginning in April.
Chemistry World May 2006 Bea Perks	Editorial: Generics in the Dock The manufacturers of generic medicines in the U.K. must work harder to guard their good reputation. Or perhaps, manufacturers of generic medicines must work harder to counter their bad reputation.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 Leela Barham	The Queen's English Defining the language of value based pricing in the United Kingdom and ultimately the world.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: A Hope and a Payer If current trends continue, the United Kingdom will spend 12.7 percent of its GDP on healthcare by 2050. Maybe that means it's time to reform the National Health Service's notoriously complex drug payment scheme.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2014 Leela Barham	The Gate Keeper Dr. David Haslam, Chair of the UK's National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, discusses what the quantitative calculations of value mean to patient access in today's messy world of real-time medicine.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2011	UK Report: Keep Calm and Carry On ... Differently Even as the global economic roller coaster affects one of the country's dearest public institutions, the National Health Service, there is still reason for optimism in these times of austerity.
Chemistry World November 28, 2008 Matt Wilkinson	EU claims pharma delaying tactics cost 3 billion euros Pharmaceutical manufacturers have been criticised by the EU competition commission for slowing the entry of generic medicines to the market.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Drug Evaluation in the UK The availability of new medicines has been thrown into the limelight once more, with UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence being called upon to make dramatic improvements to the speed at which it carries out evaluations.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008 Sarah Houlton	Open For Debate Tensions mount as stakeholders in the UK health industry attempt to work out drug cost problems.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2005 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Still Waiting Pharma industry and traders both want a decision on parallel trade in Europe--but not the same one.
Chemistry World October 10, 2012 Maria Burke	Illegal medicines seized in worldwide operation During the nine-day operation, coordinated by INTERPOL and involving 100 countries, around 18,000 illegal online pharmacy websites were shut down and 79 people were arrested.
Chemistry World December 20, 2013 Patrick Walter	Chinese police seize 222m pounds of fake drugs Counterfeit medicines and raw materials worth more than Yuan2.2 billion have been seized by Chinese authorities.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2012 Feam & Lagus	Providing Access Now While regulatory frameworks and medical practices differ between countries, many patients still need early access to new drugs. Industry can help.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Iron Fist The United Kingdom is hardening its stance on pharma industry issues.
Chemistry World March 18, 2013 Andrew Turley	Interpol teams up with pharma International police service Interpol is teaming up with 29 drug companies to combat the trade in fake medicines.
American Family Physician December 15, 2006	Tips for Using Medicines Wisely A patient guide and suggestions for safe medicine use.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 3, 2007 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Five-Year Survivor: European Edition The UK government's attitude seems to be that oncology treatments are hugely expensive -- and that too much of the National Health Service budget is vanishing into the pockets of drug companies. Will cancer networks fill the gap?
Chemistry World June 23, 2010 Sarah Houlton	A smaller future for big pharma? Cutting the amount spent on medicines may be an easy way for governments to help balance the books in the short term, but in the long run it will impact the ability to discover new medicines.
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	UK regulator warning over online herbal remedies The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has found that several herbal medicines available over the internet are contaminated with prescription-only drugs or toxic heavy metals.
Chemistry World May 5, 2015 Anthony King	Merger creates biggest supplier of unlicensed drugs Specialty pharma company Clinigen is to buy its rival Idis, making it the market leader in ethical unlicensed drug supply.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2007 Brian Lawler	Medicines Decides Not to Share The Medicines Company reacquires its own drug. Until now, privately held European specialty pharma Nycomed has marketed Angiomax in Europe. Investors, take note.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Please Come Back Health authorities in Europe are working hard to reestablish their countries as preferred locations for pharma's R&D facilities. Fortunately, they've got a blueprint: China.
Chemistry World July 2010	Meeting Mr NICE guy Bibiana Campos-Seijo meets the chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Sir Andrew Dillon
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Parker & Amar	Building Blockbusters The most lucrative new drugs are often less glamorous than first-in-class new molecular entities. And they are much less risky.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 William Looney	The Permanent Campaign Promoting the merits of private-sector drug innovation is no easy task; just ask the UK's Office of Health Economics, with a record 50 years of engagement around the hard policy questions that ultimately drive success in the pharmaceutical marketplace.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Moving Towards Generic Biologics The European Medicines Agency hopes to complete its guidelines for the approval of biosimilar drugs early this year, paving the way for the approval of biogenerics - and a potential goldmine for the generics companies.
Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Maria Burke	Government Launches UK Life Sciences Strategy Prime minister David Cameron has announced a package of measures designed to boost the UK's life sciences industry.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: 'Bout Time The European Union has been late to enter the fight against counterfeiting. Fed up, Parliament has passed a proposal designed to give its countries the nudge they need.
Chemistry World July 10, 2012	Interview: EMA head Guido Rasi His five-year appointment comes during a period of dramatic change for the pharma industry, which is struggling with patent expirations for many of its biggest selling drugs and a paucity of new drugs coming through the pipeline to take their place.
Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Sarah Houlton	Academia Grows Its Role in Drug Discovery The number of pharma patents being filed by universities around the world is soaring compared with those coming from industry.
Chemistry World September 7, 2015	Cancer Drugs Fund axes 23 treatments The Cancer Drugs Fund, which covers the cost of some cancer treatments that are not currently available on the National Health Service, has cut 23 treatments -- involving 16 drugs.
Chemistry World October 1, 2012 Andrew Turley	Pharma should 'double output by 2022' The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology advises that pharmaceutical companies should set a goal of doubling output of 'innovative new medicines that meet critical public health needs' over the next 10 -- 15 years.
American Family Physician March 1, 2004	Chronic Pain Medicines Description of the different types of pain medicines for chronic pain.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: Under One Roof The UK government is planning to set up a single body to oversee all health research in universities and hospitals - and to facilitate partnerships between government agencies and industry.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Brian Gorman	Novartis Embraces Generics The company is taking a different path from its branded pharmaceutical peers. The company's strategy may make its stock worth a closer look.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 William Looney	Truth Found in the Wrong Places More bad ideas on how to manage the healthcare burden are circulating beyond the stakeholders that initiated them.
Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Maria Burke	Europe risks being outstripped by R&D rivals EU companies are lagging behind in R&D investment compared with major competitors from the US and some Asian economies, according to the European Commission's 2011 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2012 Lauri Mitchell	Who Pays for Specialty Medicines? Providers and patients fish for that delicate balance between access and abandonment.
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Chemistry World April 16, 2010 Sean Milmo	Ineos starts UK chemicals exodus Ineos's decision to relocate its headquarters to Switzerland because of corporate taxation concerns may spark an exodus of chemical and pharmaceutical companies from having their headquarters in the UK.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 Carol Ann Williams	Data Exclusivity: Making the Case As the scope and complexity of registration information demanded by regulators increases, protection of that know-how has become a critical differentiator in the "go" or "no go" calculation on whether to invest in a new medicine.