Health Policy

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

Eli Lilly and Company has set a parity target for its diabetes and obesity medicines: treat as many people in low- and middle-income countries as in high-income countries by 2040. The commitment carries no price mechanism, so progress will be judged against Lilly's own annual Sustainability Report. #SyenzaNews #globalhealth #pharmaceuticals #MarketAccess

A National Press Foundation briefing on drug prices and workforce shortages: separate list price from net price, ask which goal a policy serves, and check whether more clinicians really mean more appointments. #SyenzaNews #HealthEconomics #MarketAccess

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

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

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

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

SAHPRA reports a clean audit, WHO ML3 vaccine maturity, and ICH membership in its 2025/26 annual report, with R515.7 million in revenue and a R33.7 million surplus. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #SAHPRA

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

The FDA's landmark hearing on psychedelic medicines drew 80 speakers and 1,800 registrants, and the market access message was clear: approval is not access, and reimbursement is the binding constraint. #SyenzaNews #MarketAccess #Psychedelics #HealthPolicy