Francesca Bruce
Senior Reporter Pharma Insights
USA
15+ years of experience
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By Francesca Bruce 12 Oct 2021
The company behind the CVnCOV COVID-19 vaccine candidate says the decision to withdraw from regulatory review is strategic. The EMA says outstanding issues affecting the benefit-risk balance remained to be answered at the time of withdrawal.
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By Francesca Bruce 30 Jun 2021
A delay to implementing drug pricing reforms is an opportunity for Canadian authorities to come up with better proposals, say industry representatives, while authorities remain adamant that action is necessary to lower prices.
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By Francesca Bruce 27 Nov 2020
The Cancer Drugs Fund has improved access to oncology drugs, but if it is to remain fit for purpose it will need to evolve.
Topic Cancer
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By Francesca Bruce 23 Nov 2020
England’s health technology appraisal body, NICE, and the UK medicines regulator, the MHRA, are working together to align their process timelines so that access to medicines is “maintained and enhanced.”
Topic Brexit Pharma-Brexit EU
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By Francesca Bruce 21 Sep 2020
Germany is for the first time to adopt national guidelines on prescribing biologics and biosimilars in move towards increasing biosimilar uptake.
Topic EU Biosimilars
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By Francesca Bruce 26 Aug 2020
The UK government has finally published its white paper on the UK’s future relationship with the EU following Brexit, to the relief of the pharmaceutical industry.
Topic Pharma-Brexit Brexit Regulation EU
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By Francesca Bruce 29 Jul 2019
A national pharmacare program in Canada could make it harder to access higher cost drugs.
Topic Policy & Regulation
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By Francesca Bruce 05 Jul 2019
Latin American joint price negotiations have proved successful and other countries are taking note.
Topic Business Strategies Deals
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By Francesca Bruce 02 Jul 2019
Regulatory harmonization is gathering pace in Latin America, which is good news for pharmaceutical companies.
Topic Policy & Regulation
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By Francesca Bruce 22 Aug 2018
PRIMA, the new service the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence offers to review economic models, must not be affected by confidentiality and conflict of interest issues, warns UK the pharmaceutical industry group, ABPI.
Topic Business Strategies
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By Francesca Bruce 22 Aug 2018
The UK government has finally published its white paper on the UK’s future relationship with the EU following Brexit, to the relief of the pharmaceutical industry.
Topic Brexit
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By Francesca Bruce 18 Jan 2018
The EU is once again facing criticism for its pursuit of investor-state dispute settlement-like mechanisms.
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By Francesca Bruce 07 Dec 2017
Health technology assessment agencies are struggling to evaluate drugs on the basis of evidence generated for early approvals.
Topic BioPharmaceutical
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By Francesca Bruce 27 Mar 2017
In withdrawing its European marketing application for Translarna in cystic fibrosis, PTC Therapeutics has bid farewell to a market opportunity once pegged at $700m.
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