Report 13 Sep 2013

Health at your fingertips

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Video 20 Aug 2013

Watch out for false friends (Spanish subtitles)

Every day, fake medicines find their way into online and physical pharmacies, hospitals, and street markets. This plague knows no borders. In the best case scenario, fake medicines leave patients with no side-effects but also without a cure. In many other cases, however, they can kill people. We have to get smarter than the criminals...

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Video 22 Jul 2013

Watch out for false friends (full version)

Every day, fake medicines find their way into online and physical pharmacies, hospitals, and street markets. This plague knows no borders. In the best case scenario, fake medicines leave patients with no side-effects but also without a cure. In many other cases, however, they can kill people. We have to get smarter than the criminals...

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Video 22 Jul 2013

Watch out for false friends (short version)

Every day, fake medicines find their way into online and physical pharmacies, hospitals, and street markets. This plague knows no borders. In the best case scenario, fake medicines leave patients with no side-effects but also without a cure. In many other cases, however, they can kill people. We have to get smarter than the criminals...

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Expert insight 22 Jul 2013

Watch Out for False Friends

Every day, fake medicines find their way into online and physical pharmacies, hospitals, and street markets. This plague knows no borders. In the best case scenario, fake medicines leave patients with no side-effects but also without a cure. In many other cases, however, they can kill people. For this reason, health representatives from different countries...

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Expert insight 15 Jul 2013

mHealth: the Opportunity for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Mobile phones are the most rapidly adopted technology in the world: next year, there will be more mobile phones than human beings on this planet. For all of us who work in global health the question is how can we leverage the power of these billions of mobile phones to advance global health goals? This...

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Expert insight 8 Jul 2013

Never Stop Advancing – Incremental Innovation

What do we really mean when we say “incremental innovation”? Are we really just talking about minor changes to already existing medicines? Looking at the many positive things that incremental innovation – a continuous, lengthy, step-by-step research process – has meant for patients, the answer is a clear NO. Incremental innovation is a complicated process...

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Video 8 Jul 2013

Never stop advancing – incremental innovation

  This video illustrates the value of innovation — both revolutionary and incremental — in the biopharmaceutical field. With a specific focus on incremental innovation, it explains how the continuous investments in R&D, and consequent advances in available treatments, have bettered the lives of millions patients all around the world.

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Video 5 Jul 2013

Joint technical symposium by WHO, WIPO and WTO

Andrew Jenner speaking about Medical Innovation – Changing Business Models Geneva, July 5, 2013

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Press release 2 Jul 2013

IFPMA joins ITU and WHO in Be He@lthy, Be Mobile mHealth initiative to reduce the impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

Be He@lthy, Be Mobile is a new intersectoral initiative using mobile technology to help prevent and control NCDs. IFPMA partners to contribute knowledge and resources, lessons learned, and technical expertise to develop the best solutions for mHealth interventions for NCDs. IFPMA releases Health at your fingertips, a directory of pharmaceutical companies’ and associations’ mHealth initiatives,...

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Infographic 1 Jul 2013

The research-based pharmaceutical industry and mHealth

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Infographic 27 Jun 2013

A check-list for transferring technologies

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