Eye Health: A Different Vision
Eye health is vital to everyday life, yet it remains heavily underfunded compared to fields like cancer or diabetes. While global spending on oncology is set to reach USD 440…
Saudi Arabia has long represented an alluring marketplace for the global MedTech industry. Not only does the Kingdom constitute the largest spender on healthcare across the Middle East and North Africa region, but its medical device sector has been experiencing…
Eye health is vital to everyday life, yet it remains heavily underfunded compared to fields like cancer or diabetes. While global spending on oncology is set to reach USD 440…
Amidst the hype of Saudi Arabia’s embrace of innovative therapies and technologies, the concepts of access and affordability can often be forgotten. However, the Saudi government remains the dominant healthcare…
Localising the production of medicines has become a core priority for the Saudi government over the past decade as it attempts to increase national health security, create highly skilled jobs,…
Hisham Hagar is the executive country manager for Vertex Pharmaceuticals across the Gulf Cooperation Council, leading efforts to expand access to genetic therapies and strengthen healthcare partnerships in the region.…
Dr Abdulrazaq S. Al-Jazairi, Director of Clinical Trial Transformation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, has spent more than 30 years at the institution. Trained as a cardiology…
Khaled Elrefae of Recordati Rare Diseases discusses how the company is expanding its rare disease footprint across Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and the wider MENA region. He highlights the region’s…
With Saudi Arabia striving to position itself as a regional leader in biopharmaceutical R&D by 2030 and to cement itself as a global hub before 2040, there has been a…
A quarter-century after the Human Genome Project revolutionized biology, genomic sequencing has matured from an ambitious scientific frontier into an indispensable clinical reality. Today, molecular insights routinely guide everything from…
When it was first initiated back in 2016, in the wake of the launch of Vision 2030, few industry insiders could have anticipated just quite how radical Saudi Arabia’s Health…
With increased average disposable income in Saudi Arabia eliciting more sedentary lifestyles and less healthy dietary choices, more than 68 percent of all mortality in the Kingdom is nowadays attributed…
Saudi Arabia’s pharmaceuticals market grew an impressive 9.1 percent in 2024 underscoring its position as the regional heavyweight, and projecting a sales value of around USD 11.6 billion, which constitutes…
Some of the top recent stories from pharma and healthcare in the Middle East and Africa, including Saudi Arabia’s pharma pitch to US investors, a new fund to bring forward…
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