Advocates Strategize on Pain Care Policy at GAfPA’s Malta Workshop   Young King David beat the biblical giant Goliath, as advocates at a Global Alliance for Patient Access workshop in Malta were recently reminded.  In the same way, a small group of committed advocates can rival much larger, more powerful interest groups – impacting policy … Continued

  EU regulators who want to encourage understanding and acceptance of biosimilar medicines might consider improving the drugs’ labels.  So says the stakeholders group EuropaBio, which has issued recommendations for enhancing transparency in the literature that accompanies a biosimilar. Known as the summary of product characteristics, this documentation is required by the European Commission to … Continued

Click any of the links below to read country fact sheets based on Professor Michael Kaeding of the University of Duisburg Essen’s latest study, Pharmacovigilance in the EU: Practical implementation across Member States.   The study examines how well EU pharmacovigilance legislation is being implemented by six member states: the UK, Germany, France, Finland, Poland, and … Continued

Patients and doctors need to be better informed about the need for high quality monitoring around all biologic medicines, according to a new study published today. An examination of the pharmacovigilance legislation in place across six EU countries has identified that patient reactions to biologic products are underreported in a number of EU countries. These … Continued

Click below to learn about chronic pain across Europe. English Spanish French German    

GAfPA Attends 12th Annual Congress of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation ‘Advancing knowledge, improving care’ – that was the resounding theme of the 12th congress of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation.   Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease, but also among the least known immune-mediated diseases.  … Continued

On November 15th, 2016, more than 70 patient advocates and physicians from across the European Union attended the Patient Advocacy and Safety conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The patient and physician advocates – who came from almost every country in the EU – represented a variety of autoimmune conditions and the fields … Continued

A recent workshop hosted by the Global Alliance for Patient Access (GAfPA) allowed patient advocates from across Europe’s Nordic region to consider biosimilar policies and discuss a topic of growing international interest: switching from a biologic to a biosimilar medicine. The workshop, held on October 5-6, 2016 in Copenhagen, drew seven different patient advocacy groups … Continued

While 21st Century medications represent some remarkable breakthroughs, they often come with high costs. As a result, many agencies are exploring ways to minimize drug costs, sometimes without considering the long-term consequences. English Spanish French German

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