Europe’s new medicine law is almost done. Making it work has barely started

EU PERSPECTIVES - New medicines take more than 1,000 days to reach patients in Romania. Pharmacists lose 12 hours a week chasing shortages. The EU's biggest medicine reform in two decades aims to tackle both, and lawmakers have now cleared it in committee. Industry, regulators, wholesalers, and pharmacists still disagree on what it will change in practice. Read more

Approval is only half the journey. Getting medicines to every pharmacy is the other / Photo: Christina Victoria Craft (Unsplash)