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Innovative Medicines And Medical Devices
EMA Expert Panel Consultation for Medical Devices Adds an Orphan Pathway
EMA has updated its business process for expert panel consultations on high-risk medical devices. The revision, effective 12 October 2026, adds orphan device advice as a new sub-process. #SyenzaNews #MedicalDevices #MarketAccess #HTA

Clinical Practice
BNT113 head and neck cancer trial misses first endpoint
BioNTech’s AHEAD-MERIT trial did not reach significance on progression-free survival. The overall survival read-out is still to come.

Cost Effectiveness Analysis
Rapid-Acting Insulin Analogue Cost-Effectiveness in Type 1 Diabetes: What the Evidence Shows
Insulin analogue cost-effectiveness studies for adults with type 1 diabetes mostly point the same way: the newer products usually come out ahead of human insulin. A new systematic review says that headline rests on thinner ground than it looks. The paper, by Shiwa Yaghoubi Bina, Steve Njokuocha and the T1D Economic Evidence Synthesis Group, has been accepted for Value in Health. The version available now is a pre-proof, so figures could still change at copyediting. The World Health Organization funded […]

Clinical Practice
Denosumab Ascend Biosimilar Wins EU Authorisation for Bone Complications
The EMA has authorised Denosumab Ascend, a biosimilar of Xgeva. Here is what the assessment shows on safety, efficacy and use. #SyenzaNews #biotechnology #MarketAccess

Europe
Health Security in Europe: Why Resilience Starts Before a Crisis
Health security in Europe is being redefined from emergency response to national resilience, and the EFPIA View argues it starts with funded health systems.

Health Policy
Health Investment Returns: What Berlin’s Funding the Future Panel Argued
Ministers, development banks and industry at the World Health Summit argued that health investment returns should be measured in lives saved, jobs and tax revenue, not budget size. #SyenzaNews #HealthEconomics #MarketAccess

Clinical Guidelines And Protocols
Individualised Genetic Therapies Test Regulation, Payment and HTA
OHE’s A Dose of Economics explores why medicines made for one patient challenge regulation, payment and HTA.

Europe
The Strategic Health Economy: Why Finance Ministries Still See Health as a Cost
At the World Health Summit in Berlin, speakers from the European Commission, Japan, Africa, the Asian Development Bank and industry argued that health is a strategic economic asset, and asked how to persuade finance ministries. #SyenzaNews #HealthEconomics

Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
AI in Medical Education: Responsible Integration Across the Training Continuum
AI is entering every stage of medical training. A new npj Digital Medicine Perspective maps how to integrate it responsibly across UGME, GME and CME.

Diseases
Multiple Sclerosis Health Utilities Decline With Disability
Health utilities for multiple sclerosis fall with disability, and progressive forms score lowest. A UK cohort of 5,772 patients gives modellers EQ-5D and cost inputs by MS type and EDSS band. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess
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