NICE Said Yes to the Lung Machine, and Then Attached Four Years of Conditions
NICE conditionally recommended the XVIVO perfusion system for NHS use, with four years of evidence generation and a hub model to end the postcode divide.
Month: July 2026
Abbott Is Not Testing Whether TriClip Works. It Is Building the File That Gets It Paid.
Abbott began a 1,000-patient, five-year post-market study of TriClip across 100 sites, generating the durability evidence payers and guidelines require.
A B7-H3 Antibody Drug Conjugate Just Won a Second Phase 3, in a Second Tumour
A second positive Phase 3 in a second tumour makes Ris-Rez the only B7-H3 antibody-drug conjugate with late-stage wins across more than one cancer.
J&J Won the Ruling on 22 July. Five Days Later It Agreed to Pay $5.5 Billion.
J&J agreed to pay $5.5 billion to resolve roughly 76,000 ovarian talc claims, five days after a court ruling that put plaintiffs in an untenable position.
Approval Is Day One. In Canada, Patients Wait Another Five Hundred Days.
A Canadian government task force counted the wait for public drug coverage: 200 days for HTA, 195 for price negotiation, then up to 219 more per province.
Italy Ran an Innovation Test for Eight Years.
Italy graded new medicines full, conditional or not innovative for eight years. The 2025 reform abolished the middle grade, because almost nothing ever graduated.
A New Antibiotic Reached a Middle-Income Country Six Months After the US
Thailand approved a first-in-class oral antibiotic for gonorrhoea six months after the US, a benchmark for how fast new medicines can reach lower-income markets.
Argentina Just Made One Agency the Buyer for Five National Hospitals
Argentina published the decree completing its National Agency of Health Establishments, centralising the administration and procurement of five national hospitals.
Britain Thought It Had an Opt-Out. Washington Reads the Deal Differently.
Britain believed it had secured an exemption from the MFN reference basket. Washington reads the arrangement differently, and implementation is still being negotiated.
Wet AMD’s Problem Was Never the Drug. It Was the Injections.
Susvimo won a CHMP recommendation as Europe’s first continuous-delivery wet AMD treatment, replacing monthly eye injections with two implant refills a year.