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Distribution and Patient Support for Speciality Medicines in Europe
Speciality medicines (specialty in the US) have become one of the main drivers of pharmaceutical industry growth. High tech, 'high touch' products with premium prices targeted at chronic, complex diseases, often requiring special storage and handling, with help with dosage administration, close monitoring and ongoing support for the patient needed.

Prospects for Legalizing Drug (Re-)Importation to the United States
President Barack Obama said during his election campaign he would 'allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the US'. He began delivering on this promise with a fiscal 2010 budget request for funds 'to allow the FDA to begin developing policies for drug importation'. Earlier in 2009, with strong bipartisan support, Senator Bryon Dorgan (D-ND) re-tabled a bill to allow both personal and commercial drug importation. Obama himself, new White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and the influential Senator Edward Kennedy were co-sponsors of the identical 2007 version.

Complete Guide to the 2009 PPRS, NICE and other Pharmaceutical Cost Containment Measures in the United Kingdom
In an otherwise volatile pharmaceutical world, 2009 has seen two notable and durable anniversaries, the implementation of the tenth re-negotiated Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme in January and the tenth birthday of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in April. PPRS and NICE, are among abbreviations most widely recognised, but their structures, functions and ways of working are often less than fully understood.

Pharmacy Liberalisation in Europe: Prospects and Implications
Very little in the pricing environment in Europe is predictable to pharmaceutical companies and only rarely is much notice given of change. But before the end of 2009, if the European Court of Justice accepts the arguments put to it forcefully by the European Commission and by DocMorris, then revolutionary reform among industry's main customer group, the community pharmacist, in several of the main countries, including 4 of the EU-5, will get the green light. The main issue to be resolved, whether national regulations on pharmacy ownership and establishment of new premises infringe EU law, is of wider importance than for the pharmacy profession alone. It amounts to a battle over control of healthcare provision between Brussels and the member states, with the outcome also of great significance to patients, wholesalers, manufacturers and payers.

'Pharmacy Liberalisation in Europe: Prospects and Implications' provides fully researched, up-to-date information and interpretation on what deregulation could mean to all participants in the medicines' market. Whether your interest is in marketing prescription brands, generics or OTCs, in their distribution, or in paying the bill for them, this report is for you. To be forewarned of what might happen will allow adequate preparation for it.

Access to Hospital Pharmaceutical Markets in the United Kingdom
Public hospitals represent a very important market segment for most biopharmaceutical companies in Europe. They are the often the only market for the increasing numbers of speciality products emerging from R&D, with many primary care products also unable to get established for maintenance therapy in the community without hospital recommendation first. Though the processes for achieving hospital usage are very different to the reimbursed GP/community pharmacy sector, they remain poorly documented and often little understood.

This Justpharmareports' publication aims to clarify the situation for the UK, a particularly challenging country with four different public healthcare systems, numerous stakeholders, regular reforms, and rigorous health technology assessment. Medicines prescribed in English hospitals alone in 2006 were valued at £2.7 billion (€3.4 billion/$5.4 billion). This represented 24% of the English NHS drugs bill (but hospital prescribing in London accounted for 40% of all prescribing costs). Even more significantly, the hospital drug bill has been rising at more than twice the rate of GP prescribing costs.

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Distribution in Japan: The keys to success in the world’s second largest market
No serious multinational can afford to ignore Japan, but it remains a tough and highly competitive market to crack, with the environment for developing and marketing medicines dominated by price. Virtually no new prescription brand can be introduced without a yakka (reimbursement price) set by the government. Innovative new drugs receive price premiums while others are capped at the price of older entrants. Discounting to the trade is inescapable, but is punished by downward price revisions on a scale and frequency unseen elsewhere. Big selling brands and now others in the same class are subject to special price cuts. Distribution is inherently linked to the pricing process and is particularly opaque to outsiders.

Orphan Drugs in Europe: Pricing, Reimbursement, Funding and Market Access Issues
In order to raise public awareness, 29 February 2008 was dedicated the first European rare disease day ('a rare day for very special people'), but European payers need no reminding of the significance of rare disease treatments, generally known as orphan drugs.

Eight years earlier, EU Regulation 141/2000 was enacted to encourage R&D in rare diseases and increase orphan drug output. By any standard the Regulation has been a major success.

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