Sep 24, 2025
At last week’s EMIG Quarterly meeting Donal Markey, Assistant director of Programmes, Transformation and Performance, said that the Irish health service had been reorganised just once while England’s NHS had been reorganised 7 times. As we are in our Silver...
Sep 16, 2025
Four times over the last 10 years, free market competition between the manufacturers of Olanzapine tablets drove the price to a level where profit was impossible and withdrawal is the only option. When prices decline in the market, the reimbursement drug tariff often...
Sep 11, 2025
Isotrex Gel 0.05% was first launched in the UK by Stiefel Laboratories Ltd on 10 November 2002. It was primarily used to treat acne vulgaris in adolescents and contained isotretinoin, a compound similar to Vitamin A. The first parallel import appeared in the UK in...
Sep 9, 2025
It was a crazy idea, that generic manufacturers would be able to monitor each other’s sales prices. Back in 1999, when Charles Joynson was working in the Business Information department at Baker Norton, he was tasked with acquiring some competitor Pharmacy Price...
Aug 22, 2025
Check out the latest UK Price Watch article in the Generics Bulletin for analysis and insight on May’s product launches, the biggest risers, the biggest fallers and the fastest movers…. with market data provided by WaveData. Dave Wallace editor at Generics Bulletin,...
Aug 4, 2025
The WaveData Team wanted to find an example of a parallel import appearing in the UK, it’s birth in competition with the UK brand, and it’s final demise once generics had hit the market. We looked at all the different constituent molecules for which we had been able...
