In 2022, total national pharmaceutical expenditure (public and private) amounted to 34,1 billion euros, an increase of 6,0% compared to 2021. More than 6 out of 10 citizens received at least one drug prescription, with a growth in per capita expenditure and consumption with increasing age. In particular, the population with […]
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With BoD Resolution no. 15 of 26 April 2023, the Italian Medicines Agency admits the indication for reimbursement of the combination Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil for "Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and in order to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted HIV-1 infection in adults and adolescents at high risk". It is an additional prevention tool for […]
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Pharmacological and surgical therapeutic novelties are on the way; moreover, Profs Marzano and Prignano are at the head of a multi-specialist task force that will take charge of the patient to follow him at 360 degrees. SIDeMaST is also at the forefront to create an Italian and European registry on hidradenitis and new parameters for assessing the severity of […]
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The Italian Medicines Agency has released the AIFA Medicinali application for mobile devices, designed as a practical and immediate tool for accessing information and receiving notifications on medicines. "The Agency's initiative - says the Director General, Nicola Magrini - stems from a need reported by the same associations of people with chronic and disabling pathologies who have [...]
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The project, coordinated by AIFA and supported by the ISS, will allow the dissemination of good practices to prevent and mitigate the unavailability of medicines. A three-year plan to coordinate and harmonize the existing national systems against the shortage of medicines. It is the European "Joint Action" project which, with a budget of about 10 million euros, was born [...]
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Note 100 extends the possibility of prescribing antidiabetic drugs to general practitioners and specialists Type 2 diabetes mellitus represents a chronic disease with a growing prevalence in the Italian population, equal to 6-7% (over 3,5 million of patients), and a significant impact in terms of morbidity and mortality. [...]
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Release of analysis by region and comprehensive update of the first two months of 2021 The Italian Medicines Agency makes available the regional detail on the use of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic through which it is possible to analyze the trend in consumption of the COVID-19, of injecting and hospital-use drugs as well as those purchased in [...]
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From monitoring the purchase of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic - available on the AIFA website - it is possible to analyze the consumption trend of medicines for COVID-19, of injecting and hospital-use drugs and of those purchased in local pharmacies, also in comparison with the previous year (2019). The monitoring, which will be updated on a monthly basis, reveals [...]
read moreThe Aifa report on the use of drugs in pregnancy was presented The first OsMed report "The use of drugs in pregnancy" was presented live today on Youtube from the Italian Medicines Agency "I am very pleased to introduce this Report - comments in opening the Director General of AIFA Magrini - the latest newcomer in the historic series of [...]
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Today, March 27, the Italian Embassy in Niamey and the Bilateral Support Mission in Niger (MISIN), have provided for the delivery of a batch of drugs, collected and made available by the Banco Farmaceutico Onlus Foundation in the within the scope of the collaboration agreement in place between the Joint Forces Operations Command (COI), the Military Ordinariate and [...]
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WHO complaint on global health expenditure. Citizen satisfaction expires in Italy (by Nicola Simonetti) World Health Organization (WHO) report on global health spending has been published (Xu K, et al. Public Spending on Health: A Closer Look at Global Trends. WHO, 2019 ). According to this report, healthcare spending on a global level is continuously [...]
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The provision after the battle of the parents of an allergic child and their lawyer (Giovanni D'AGATA) Certain rights and services are taken for granted, but then when tragedies occur it turns out that this is not always the case. One of the issues that we thought were "normal", namely the regulated administration of drugs to children during [...]
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In the early hours of today's morning - as part of a criminal proceeding coordinated by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office - the Carabinieri of the NAS of Milan in the Milanese province, of Monza Brianza, Rome, Naples and Lucca, assisted in the executive phase by the actual military local Provincial Commands - implemented a precautionary measure [...]
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“Biosimilar medicines are an important therapeutic resource and an opportunity to help ensure more and more the response to the emerging health need. In synergy with biological drugs, they can provide answers to the problem of undertreatment for numerous pathologies, guaranteeing access to therapies to an increasing number of patients "declared the General Manager [...]
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