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Launch first, negotiate later: pharma’s plan to speed up access to medicines

02-10-2026

EU PERSPECTIVES - New medicines mean little if patients cannot get them. EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi promised in Dublin that Europe will beat the US and China in biotech. In Gastein, drugmakers warned that patients in Europe still wait far too long. Read more

Europe still has world-class science, the Commissioner argues. The question is whether it stays at home / Photo: European Commission (EC Audiovisual Service)



     

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