Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (Ipha)

‘I wasn’t sick enough to access life-saving cancer therapy’

Six years after a shock melanoma diagnosis, Miriam Staunton is currently free of cancer and advocating for other patients

Mon Mar 03 2025 - 13:18

Irish debate on access to next-generation medicines is missing key data

Industry and Government keep urging each other to do more but neither is moving to fill in the gaps

Thu Feb 27 2025 - 05:00

Drug reimbursement system no longer fit for purpose, former HSE boss says

Government will need to reform how it assesses which drugs to fund if it is to meet Programme for Government commitments, Ipha conference hears

Wed Feb 26 2025 - 18:14

Drug companies and Minister agree medicines need to be available to patients more quickly

Minister queries why barely half of key drugs are being submitted for approval in Ireland

Wed Feb 26 2025 - 05:00

Ireland should oppose EU proposals on regulatory protection for medicines

European Commission has proposed reducing the period of regulatory data protection from eight years to six years

Mon Nov 25 2024 - 05:00

Collaborating through gritted teeth

Pharma sector stakeholders still scoring points off each other despite new resources and talk of ‘shared purpose’

Thu Mar 14 2024 - 06:00

Public cancer patients being offered treatment that is second best to one in private system, conference hears

Minister for Health tells medicines industry conference he has sanctioned 34 new hires to speed up vetting process for new treatments

Thu Mar 07 2024 - 16:25

Patients waiting over two years for access to EU- approved medicines

Irish approvals process delays mean public patients forced to wait for new therapies already available to private patients

Thu Mar 07 2024 - 10:04

Ozempic drug-maker pushed Government to oppose EU pharma reforms

Proposals would lower time period a company has protection over research behind drugs they develop

Sat Nov 25 2023 - 06:00

Pharmacists dispensing unlicensed medication due to shortage, union says

One source working in the pharmaceutical industry warned about the use of EMPs, stating there were two recalls in the sector in recent months for potential harm to patients

Mon Nov 06 2023 - 06:00

Demand for weight loss drug more than 45 times higher than expected

New obesity medicines have potential to use up entire State drugs budget, conference hears

Tue Oct 17 2023 - 15:41

Mental health services must be prised from grip of psychiatry

Mac MacLachlan: Our mental health services have not evolved to reflect what we know about mental health

Mon May 22 2023 - 04:30

Obesity drug firm paid health staff €345,000 over three years

Novo Nordisk’s UK affiliate has been suspended from industry body there for marketing breaches

Mon Mar 27 2023 - 00:01

John Burns: What the State paid Bobby Kerr, Michael Portillo and Mary Kennedy

Any Other Business: Apple’s Irish activities, Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation scales back, greener fuel and the odds on David McRedmond being RTE’s next DG

Fri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00

Heartbreak of children lost to rare disease for which there was no cure

Even on a pure financial basis, families insist that expensive breakthrough treatments are better value for the State than caring for terminally ill children

Thu Mar 02 2023 - 17:40

New medicines must be affordable to all, Minister tells drug companies

Stephen Donnelly tells pharma conference government and industry need to work closer together to improve patient access

Thu Mar 02 2023 - 15:57

Big pharma companies warn against loosening rules on intellectual property

New EU strategy due this month will focus on improving affordability of and access to medicines across member states

Thu Mar 02 2023 - 10:00

Hope on the horizon for families of thousands of Alzheimer’s patients

Giving doctors access to breakthrough medicines is priority for Biogen boss Michael O’Connell in his role as Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association president

Fri Feb 24 2023 - 12:00