Keep Pace with Pharma’s Even Nuanced Technology Driven Changes – For Success

Since 2020, unprecedented global disruptions affecting lives, livelihoods, and business, have impacted India in equal measure, if not more – across various areas, including the pharma industry. If there is one change that is creating a snowballing effect, is the … Continue reading

Creating ‘Shared Value’ in Pharma – The Way Forward

Many Pharmaceutical companies, both global and local, are struggling with a plethora of critical challenges. With the industry reputation diving south successful navigation through this headwind has become an onerous task, more than ever before. Under this backdrop, the article, … Continue reading

Should India follow the US way to regulate all types of lobbying in the country?

Currently, India is one of the fastest-growing economies of the world along with China. Even during the recent global financial meltdown process both India and China could register a very impressive average GDP growth of around 7% consistently during the … Continue reading

Abbott – Piramal deal: the way future is expected to shape up

In my view, these are still very early days for such acquisitions of large domestic Indian pharmaceutical companies by the Global Pharma majors to gain momentum in the country. However, there is no doubt that in the near future, we … Continue reading

Innovative Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Healthcare Financing is the way forward to improve ‘Affordability’ and ‘Access’ to Healthcare’ in India

Despite various measures taken by the Government of India (GoI), around 65% of the population do not have access to modern medicines in the country. Such medicines do not include treatment just for ‘Tropical Diseases’ like, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Filariasis or … Continue reading

The need for urgent healthcare reform in India: The way forward.

If we look at the history of development of the developed countries of the world, we shall see that all of them had invested and even now are investing to improve the social framework of the country where education and … Continue reading

Increasing penetration of Health Insurance: an important way to improve affordability and access to healthcare

While India is making rapid strides in its economic growth, the country is increasingly facing constraints in providing healthcare benefits to a vast majority of its population. This is mainly because of the following reasons:1. Inadequate healthcare infrastructure and delivery … Continue reading

Global API manufacturers are poised to penetrate the Indian market in a bigger way – will the API ‘marketing warfare’ be even more intense, in future?

India currently plays a relatively dominant role in the Global Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Market with China being ahead of India. While this is the current scenario, many experts in this field contemplates that important players from the regulated markets … Continue reading