Europe

Portugal cancer drug delays average 926 days from EU approval, against 655 days across the EU. The figures on the oncology patient journey also show 50.8% of patients have gone without medication at least once, and two of the country's three screening programmes remain below the 90% coverage target. #SyenzaNews #oncology #MarketAccess #healthpolicy

The Bureau of Industry and Security has named nine product classes and 19 jurisdictions that can ship specialty medicines into the United States at a zero tariff, while the 100 percent Section 232 duty reaches most patented pharmaceuticals on 29 September 2026. Companies arguing an urgent U.S. health need now have a defined route to apply. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #PharmaceuticalTariffs

Zorginstituut Nederland has ruled that the Inreda AP stays out of the Dutch basic package. The DARE trial found no clinically relevant gain in glucose control or quality of life, serious adverse events were about three times more common, and half of the patients stopped using the device. #SyenzaNews #MedTech #MarketAccess #HealthEconomics

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

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

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

Nine pharma chairs, from AstraZeneca to Sanofi, warn Europe is losing the pharmaceutical investment race to the US and China, and call on governments to treat medicines as strategic infrastructure. #SyenzaNews #pharmaceuticals #MarketAccess #drugdevelopment

The European Commission has published three templates that formalise written input from patients, carers and clinicians in EU Joint Clinical Assessments, locking it onto the scope proposal and the draft report. #HTA #JCA #MarketAccess

Portugal pharmaceutical exports climbed 42.9% in 2025 to €5.0 billion. Without that increase, national goods exports would have contracted. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #Pharma

Infarmed has launched INOV@INFARMED, a new network connecting Portugal's medicines regulator with 26 universities and research institutes to advance regulation and health technology assessment. #SyenzaNews #HTA #RegulatoryScience #HealthInnovation