Clinical Practice

Aspen Pharmacare has walked away from local lenacapavir manufacturing over the lack of guaranteed volumes, and is instead backing Merck's once-monthly oral PrEP pill, alimatravir. #SyenzaNews #HIV #PrEP #MarketAccess

Trump's Most Favored Nation drug pricing policy is already delaying new medicine launches in Europe. Brussels journalist Christoffer Frendesen unpacks the silence, the data, and why it may outlast the Trump presidency. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #DrugPricing

US Medicare is paying for obesity GLP-1s for the first time, and more than 500,000 seniors signed up in the first two months. Our latest breaks down the $245 price, the $50 copay, and what it means for Lilly and Novo Nordisk. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #GLP1 #Medicare

EMA's voluntary pre-submission pilot opens in September 2026. It adds earlier, more structured dialogue between applicants, rapporteurs and the Agency to curb premature filings. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #RegulatoryAffairs

CTS's Global Horizon panel brought four US operators to Montréal to explain why the US healthcare market rewards commercial readiness over good technology, and what founders can do about it. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #HealthTech

The RECOVER-VITAL trial found nirmatrelvir-ritonavir offered no benefit for long COVID across cognitive, autonomic, or exercise symptoms. The study also shows why placebo controls matter: a large share of the placebo group improved on their own. #SyenzaNews #LongCOVID #ClinicalTrials #MarketAccess

Novartis' oral BTK inhibitor remibrutinib met its primary endpoint in the Phase III REMODEL-1 and REMODEL-2 trials, cutting annualized relapse rates versus teriflunomide in relapsing multiple sclerosis. #SyenzaNews #MultipleSclerosis #MarketAccess #Neurology

Cipla has licensed Sino Biopharm's HER2 biparatopic ADC TQB2102 for India, South Africa and five other emerging markets. The deal caps at USD 123 million plus double-digit royalties, with access to HER2-low breast cancer as the core case. #SyenzaNews #Oncology #MarketAccess #DrugDevelopment

Insurers are spending billions on breakthrough medicines, but the tests that decide who gets them are still an afterthought. Kathryn Phillips lays out four reforms to link drug and diagnostic policy pathways. #SyenzaNews #diagnostics #healtheconomics #MarketAccess

A new benchmark in npj Digital Medicine finds frontier AI models at near-perfect accuracy on German medical licensing exams, yet image questions still cut their scores far more than for students. #SyenzaNews #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth

South Africa is preparing to register and introduce a new tuberculosis vaccine if late-stage Phase 3 trials succeed. Cabinet confirmed the plans this week and welcomed a Serum Institute of India agreement to manufacture TB vaccines for global distribution. #SyenzaNews #globalhealth #clinicaltrials #MarketAccess

Finland, UNRISD and the WHO asked what the Economics of Health for All strategy means for the next generation, from intergenerational fairness and participatory foresight to dignified access to care. #SyenzaNews #HealthEconomics #WellbeingEconomy