An economic perspective on how the European Commission’s proposal to direct incentives towards areas of high unmet medical need could nullify them Despite the significant progress made in the treatment...
How can Europe speed up development of therapies for the 95% of rare diseases with no authorised treatment? Today, a significant share of the rarest diseases lacks an approved treatment...
Rare diseases are a common health issue and affect up to 30 million Europeans. Twenty years ago, the European Orphan Medicinal Product (OMP) Regulation was put in place as an...
In July 2020, remdesivir became the first antiviral therapy approved for COVID-19 in Europe Soon after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, remdesivir was studied as a potential treatment for...
Innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry requires significant investments. Intellectual property rights, such as regulatory data protection (RDP), are in place to incentivise innovation. RDP is a key feature of the...
Flash Glucose Monitors are medical devices that help people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar. The devices offer people with diabetes an alternative to the conventional finger pricking method. Academic...
The practice of parallel imports of pharmaceuticals has taken place in Denmark and the rest of the EU since the 1970s. In 2021, parallel imports accounted for 16% of turnover...
Our real-world patient data showed the cost and QoL burden of HAE treatment with on-demand‐only therapy. Novel subcutaneous (SC) prophylactic therapies are transforming the treatment landscape of hereditary angioedema (HAE)....
The Finnish government is determined to create efficiencies in the market of pharmaceuticals. With this ambition in mind, parallel imports (PI) of pharmaceuticals can be part of the answer. PI...
Plasma-derived therapies are therapies derived from human plasma. They are manufactured using a fractionation process where the relevant proteins in plasma are separated out. Plasma is the single largest component...
This Report builds on the work of the European Expert Group for Orphan Drug Incentives (hereafter, OD Expert Group). The OD Expert Group is a cross-disciplinary group of experts representing...
Acute Team Odense (ATO) is a team of nurses with specialised training in acute care, who treat citizens in their own homes in the municipality of Odense, Denmark. ATO makes...
The Finnish health and social care system ranks high in international comparisons. However, like in many other European countries, owing to the ageing population and increasing health and social care...
Flash Glucose Monitoring is a new and superior way for people with diabetes to monitor their blood glucose level, which is already available to people with type I diabetes in...
At Copenhagen Economics’ Healthcare & Life Sciences service, we see a number of completely uncoordinated events in contemporary healthcare, which we do not believe are unrelated. In fact, the events...
Sensor-based glucose monitoring is a new and superior way for people with diabetes to monitor their blood glucose level. Today’s most common way for people to monitor their blood glucose...