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(Taiwan) What Price for Innovation?
(TOPICS Magazine)
2 September, 2009
At the same time as they are reeling from a deep reimbursement-price cut imposed by the Bureau of National Health Insurance, foreign-invested pharmaceutical companies in Taiwan are looking for ways to collaborate with BNHI to create a mechanism to ensure sound long-term incentives for innovative drugs.
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(Taiwan) DOH stocking up on swine flu drugs
(Taipei Times)
2 September, 2009
The Department of Health (DOH) has purchased 2.68 million doses of Tamiflu, and has placed orders for an additional 5 million doses of A(H1N1) influenza, or swine flu, vaccines, DOH Minister Yaung Chih-liang (楊志良) said yesterday.
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(Taiwan) Experts: 45% of H1N1 cases asymptomatic
(China Post, Taiwan)
2 September, 2009
Experts contend that rapid influenza diagnostic tests will only identify 55 percent of those with the novel A(H1N1) virus, pointing to the remaining 45 percent of infections that will largely go undetected due to the absence of symptoms, said local media yesterday.
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(Taiwan) DOH must be prepared for vaccine problems
(Taipei Times)
1 September, 2009
Department of Health (DOH) Minister Yaung Chih-liang said recently that we cannot directly link death after treatment with the vaccine for A(H1N1) influenza to the vaccine itself and that further studies are needed.
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(Taiwan) CDC seeks vaccine alternatives
(Taipei Times)
30 August, 2009
Amid a slow process and the fact that locally produced vaccines for swine flu cannot be administered to people under one year of age, the government intends to purchase more swine flu vaccines from a foreign manufacturer and to distribute more Tamiflu to local hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday.
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(Taiwan) Tamiflu prices spike amid epidemic
(China Post, Taiwan)
26 August, 2009
Amid the widening A(H1N1) epidemic, lawmakers yesterday accused health authorities for siding with pharmaceutical companies after reports of price spikes of antiviral drugs following the announcement of Tamiflu coverage under the National Health Insurance (NHI).
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(Taiwan) DOH to increase Tamiflu use
(Taipei Times)
24 August, 2009
With close to 10,000 new cases of influenza being reported per week over the past few weeks, the Department of Health (DOH) said it would soon allow for the expanded use of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, an official said yesterday.
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(Taiwan) Doctors able to exercise discretion after misdiagnosis of rapid flu test
(China Post, Taiwan)
23 August, 2009
Following reports of the third confirmed death related to the novel A(H1N1) virus as a result of an ineffective rapid influenza diagnostic test, health authorities yesterday said that in future, provided that symptoms are present, the antiviral drug Tamiflu should be prescribed whether or not results come back negative.
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(China) Second phase of trial vaccine testing begins
(China Daily)
14 August, 2009
Beginning from late Wednesday, China's 13,300 volunteers who took part in clinical trials of domestically-developed vaccines against the H1N1 flu began to receive the final second shot, according to a notice issued by the Ministry of Health.
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