On generic drugs, "the Government has given a very important signal in the decree law on liberalisations, and we hope that general practitioners, pharmacists and everyone in the drug supply chain really want to take this indication seriously". This was underlined by the Minister of Health, Renato Balduzzi, who spoke about it at a video forum on Repubblica TV.
Balduzzi, pressed by the messages of the spectators, firmly reaffirmed the line taken by the executive on the subject of drug liberalization and a stimulus to the use of 'non-branded' products. A line that is not isolated, at an international level "The General Assembly of the World Health Organization was asked to encourage the culture of generic drugs - recalls Balduzzi, who spoke at the meeting in recent days in Geneva - It is not clear why in our country this should not be equally encouraged. We have made a clear choice", and if what was hoped does not happen "we will see if we can intervene with other tools".
May 28, 2012 – Margherita Lopes – PharmaKronos
Assogeneric, review the cuts
"It would be very dangerous to underestimate the warning signs of underfunding, which come from the Regions engaged in repayment plans, in particular those that have managed to adopt effective models, capable of combining the balance of accounts and the maintenance of a high level of assistance".
This is the assessment that Francesco Colantuoni, vice president of AssoGenerici with responsibility for regional policies, draws from the meetings held with local administrations in recent weeks. So Colantuoni invites you to review the cuts in health care, in addition to spending.
"We have been able to find that in the Regions it has
