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Novo Nordisk’s spectacular ascendancy in 2023 has meant that its country managers across the world have had to embrace scrutiny and press coverage like never before. In its centenary year, the Danish firm’s new generation of obesity drugs supercharged revenues to around EUR 30 billion, a 30 percent hike from 2022, and double the…
While not a major player in clinical trials at the European level, Portugal has untapped potential in this field, leveraging a first pioneering centre in Braga, the country’s strong scientific community, a growing openness to collaboration with industry, and access to a European patient database. Considering the remarkable progress that neighbouring Spain has made as…
Portugal boasts a well-developed universal healthcare system and saw healthcare spending increase by 6.2 percent annually between 2016 and 2021, according to the OECD. However, the representatives of innovative medicines manufacturers embedded in the country are keen to point out that access to the latest drugs remains a big issue in Portugal, compounded by lengthy…
One of Europe’s smaller nations and its westernmost, Portugal, with a pharma market worth roughly USD 3.5 billion, may not be known as the continent’s pharma powerhouse. Yet the country boasts plenty of impressive credentials —such as a national healthcare system (NHS) that is not only universal and free, but increasingly digitalized— that attest to…
