Volume 12•Issue 11

In this latest update we highlight a report from the European Medicines Agency on their use of real-world evidence (RWE) in decision making, RWE reporting guidance from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health and highlight some new data ...

Aim: Preventing unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy is a key opportunity to reduce antibiotic overuse in children 2 years of age and older with acute otitis media (AOM). Pragmatic interventions to reduce durations of therapy that can be ...

Aim: To evaluate the availability of published comparative real-world evidence (RWE) studies in Medicare patients for the ten drugs set to undergo Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) price negotiations in 2026. Materials & methods: A scoping ...

Aim: NICE's highly specialized technology (HST) evaluations are highly restrictive in terms of entry criteria and as a consequence, the vast majority of rare disease medicines are assessed through NICE's standard, single technology appraisal (STA) route. ...

Aim: To quantify the economic burden of early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) among patients with and without adjuvant therapy. Methods: All-cause and NSCLC-related healthcare resource utilization and medical costs were assessed among patients ...

Aim: To estimate the cost–effectiveness of treating postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) with weekly gastro-resistant risedronate 35 mg gastro-resistant tablets (RIS-GR), compared with weekly alendronate 70 mg tablets (ALN) in Spain. Methods: A ...

The patent expiry of Humira^® in 2018 opened up the current European market to eight adalimumab biosimilars – (in alphabetical order) Amgevita^®, Amsparity^®, Hulio^®, Hukyndra^®, Hyrimoz^®, Idacio^®, Imraldi^® and Yuflyma^® – for the treatment of various immune ...