The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the generic dapagliflozin approval, clearing the first generic versions of FARXIGA (dapagliflozin) tablets. This decision significantly improves affordability and access to an important SGLT2 inhibitor for adults with type 2 diabetes. ...

A recent study commissioned by EFPIA and authored by leading CEE academics—Dr. Slaveyko Djambazov, Dr. Luka Voncina, Dr. Aleš Rod, and Dr. Marcin Czech—reveals that despite accelerated public health spending growth in several CEE countries, structural underinvestment persists. This produces marke...

In this update we examine how Utah’s groundbreaking partnership with an AI company has introduced serious AI medication prescribing risks by authorizing unsupervised prescribing of nearly 200 medications. In January 2026, Utah partnered with Doctronic to deploy the first system in the United S...

Pharmaceutical cost pressures are mounting in Portugal, with industry leaders warning that price increases for certain medicines appear inevitable in the medium term despite the government’s commitment to strict controls in the 2026 annual review. Global Cost Drivers Threaten Generic...

The inequality-adjusted ICER offers a practical way to embed explicit trade-offs between maximising total population health and reducing health inequality directly into cost-effectiveness analysis. By dividing the conventional ICER by an inequality-adjusted ICER, analysts derive a health inequali...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted an important update to the product information for Wegovy (semaglutide), introducing semaglutide distribution flexibility that allows controlled-temperature delivery at up to 30°C for up to 48 hours during the final leg from pharmacies to patients. ...