Biotherapeutics play an important role in modern medicine and have a profound impact on patients with serious diseases. A biotherapeutic is a medical product manufactured or extracted from biological sources
Read moreBreakthroughs in the treatment of hepatitis C pose questions on how to make innovations more available to a large number of patients. A new report looks at possible innovative funding solutions for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to scale up treatments for viral hepatitis and support health systems to deliver them. The report reviews over...
Read moreAppropriate Control Strategies Eliminate the Need for Redundant Testing of Pharmaceutical Products Background To help ensure drug product quality and safety, national medicines regulatory authorities (NMRAs) in many countries have implemented, or are considering implementing, import testing requirements for pharmaceuticals, biological/biotechnology and vaccine products entering their countries. Historically such testing requirements may have been necessary to prevent the distribution of unsafe or nonconforming drug products.
Read morePharmacovigilance is one of the key steps to ensuring the safety of all our medicines, including biotherapeutics and vaccines. It encourages an ongoing cycle of communication between patients, health professionals, regulatory authorities, and our biopharma industry which is responsible for the development, manufacture, and supply of medicines. Do your bit, play your part! www.ifpma.org and...
Read morePharmacovigilance is one of the key steps to ensuring the safety of all our medicines, including biotherapeutics and vaccines. It encourages an ongoing cycle of communication between patients, health professionals, regulatory authorities, and our biopharma industry which is responsible for the development, manufacture, and supply of medicines. Do your bit, play your part! www.ifpma.org and...
Read morePharmacovigilance is one of the key steps to ensuring the safety of all our medicines, including biotherapeutics and vaccines. It encourages an ongoing cycle of communication between patients, health professionals, regulatory authorities, and our biopharma industry which is responsible for the development, manufacture, and supply of medicines. Do your bit, play your part! www.ifpma.org and...
Read morePharmacovigilance is one of the key steps to ensuring the safety of all our medicines, including biotherapeutics and vaccines. It encourages an ongoing cycle of communication between patients, health professionals, regulatory authorities, and our biopharma industry which is responsible for the development, manufacture, and supply of medicines. Do your bit, play your part! www.ifpma.org...
Read moreNote to our readers: This is a re-posting that first appeared in Health Affairs Blog Here is something you don’t see too often: a room full of delegates at the World Health Organization (WHO), taking a break from discussions to practice Tai Chi. But so went proceedings at the First Global Meeting of National NCD Program...
Read moreIFPMA 2016 interview series on ‘The R&D challenges in tackling Zika virus’ As part of our latest interview series, we sat down with Dr. Ted Tsai to discuss the current R&D challenges in the fight against Zika virus. Dr. Ted Tsai, a vaccine expert from Takeda, took part in the World Health Organization (WHO)...
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