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Life Sciences and Healthcare

Medical device advertising in Italy: is authorisation by the Ministry of Health still required?

Italian Ministry of Health departs from harmonised EU regulatory framework on advertising medical devices by continuing authorisation regime
Life Sciences and Healthcare

Patient support programs: comments on Royal Decree 957/2020

Should patient support programs meet the requirements provided for non-interventional studies? Despite its brief regulation, patient support programs sparked debate
Life Sciences and Healthcare

2022 Finance Act increases State investment in Italian national health system

Pharmaceutical spending ceilings are increased and reforms to technical standards are expected
Life Sciences and Healthcare

Global healthcare's embrace of patient support programmes spurs regulatory action

Support programmes for patients are proliferating and regulators are looking to intervene in their international development
Corporate

Predictions 2022: What could be in store for US and international business?

Businesses will be readying themselves for growth and transformation in a year in which the world hopes to move on
Regulatory and compliance

Covid-19 and mental health figure large in latest health and safety statistics

The Health and Safety Executive has published its injury and ill-health statistics for 2021: what's changed?
Life Sciences and Healthcare

Are European advertising laws ready for patient support programmes?

The legal situation in Europe regarding advertisement of PSPs is highly fragmented with different jurisdictions taking varying approaches to address
Intellectual property

Trade secrets remain the sticking point in global debate over a vaccine IP waiver

A consensus on the vaccine IP waiver is yet to be reached, but will the cancellation of WTO's 12th Ministerial
Intellectual property

Supreme Court gives certainty to patentees in unlawful means economic tort claims

Dealing requirement upheld as an essential component of the tort, leaving intact the current system for litigating patents in the
COP27

COP26 | Energy Day

Welcome to the fourth instalment of our daily COP26 updates: a digest of what is on the agenda each day
Sustainable disruption: 12 decarbonising technologies for cities

Can sustainable disruption and technology deliver decarbonised cities?

Against the backdrop of COP26, the reduction of carbon emissions in cities and identifying methodology, technology and investment to achieve