ASPR 86 Essential Medicines: OMB Wants Idle Capacity Declared by 26 October

Germany drug pricing policies are now the subject of a US Section 301 investigation. AbbVie’s chief counsel, Perry Siatis, has filed written evidence and testified that government price setting, mandatory rebates and reimbursement restrictions undercut the incentives that fund new medicines. He also cites a German-French working group on keeping innovative medicines available. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #DrugPricing #HEOR

A randomized trial in 268 men awaiting radical prostatectomy found AI preoperative communication cut GAD-7 anxiety scores and nearly halved surgeon consultation time. The AI answered 2,847 of 3,507 patient questions. #SyenzaAI #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #ProstateCancer #AIinHealthcare

Mounjaro passed €1 million in pharmacy sales in a single day in Portugal, on more than 3,000 packs, and the Ordem dos Médicos has asked Infarmed for prescription data. Here is what the numbers show on access, reimbursement and supply. #SyenzaNews #GLP1 #MarketAccess

New OHE research puts the economic burden of obesity in eight European countries at 0.7% to 1.4% of GDP. Germany carries the largest bill at EUR 55.2bn; the UK carries the largest productivity share at 58%. #SyenzaAI #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #HealthEconomics #Obesity

Syenza’s webinar on AI governance in HTA drew 71% of participants who had not yet used AI in their work. The session covered the paper’s governance checklist, the in-house Navigator tool, and a live rapid HTA of rituximab in lupus. #SyenzaNews #HTA #AIinHealth #MarketAccess

Minimal stimulation IVF lowers the cost of a cycle. A health economist and a US patient advocate told an IFFS webinar that the savings case, and the bill patients carry, are both unsettled. #SyenzaNews #IVF #MarketAccess #HealthEconomics

Sweden’s pharmaceutical injury insurance logged 33 semaglutide adverse reactions claims in the first eight months of 2026, up from 13 in all of 2025. More prescribing and more awareness explain the rise better than any new risk.

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South Africa has set a second single exit price adjustment for 2026, lifting listed medicine prices by 2.88% from 1 October. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #Pharma

Roche’s dual GLP-1/GIP agonist enicepatide met both Phase II endpoints in type 2 diabetes, cutting HbA1c 2.65% and weight 15.5% at 48 weeks. #SyenzaNews #type2diabetes #GLP1 #obesity

COMP’s July 2026 sitting recommended 12 orphan drug designations, withdrew four, and sharpened the test for significant benefit against authorised therapies. #SyenzaNews #OrphanDrugs #MarketAccess #RareDiseases