08 Feb, 2023 Neglected Tropical Diseases – Progress report highlights accomplishments and challenges By Ana Rita Santos On occasion of the World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day 2023, on January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Global...
01 Feb, 2023 Working on the affordability of medicines: 2023 begins with an important message on excessive pricing - Portugal By Mariana Ricardo Early this year, the Portuguese Minister of Health stated the public expense with medicines in 2022 showed an increase of more than EUR...
01 Mar, 2022 The end of the production chain: Portuguese approach to Cannabis waste management By Mariana Ricardo Ana Rita Santos The Portuguese National Authority for Medicines and Health Products (“INFARMED”) and the Portuguese Environment Agency (“APA”) issued a...
03 Dec, 2021 Portugal establishes new rules on the revision of the prices for medicinal products By Mariana Ricardo Ordinance no. 280/2021, dated 3 December (entering into force on December 4, 2021) creates an exceptional criterion to be used in the...
23 Sep, 2021 Single-use medical devices' reprocessing and further use to be permitted in Portugal By Mariana Ricardo Portugal initiated the 2015/1535 notification procedure of the decree-law establishing the rules applicable to the reprocessing and...
09 Jun, 2021 Portugal discusses draft-laws to legalize cannabis for personal use By Inês Santana Metello Mariana Ricardo The Portuguese Parliament will meet to debate two draft-laws aimed at legalizing cannabis for non-medical personal use. Both draft-laws...
22 Feb, 2021 Portuguese VAT exemption to transfers of medical devices for in-vitro diagnosis of COVID-19, its vaccines and related provision of services By Inês Santana Metello Portugal published Law no. 4-C/2021, which transposes the Directive (EU) 2020/2020 from the 7th of December 2020, as regards temporary...
10 Feb, 2021 The emergence of strategic assets in the health sector: Portugal takes the final step to create a National Medicines Laboratory By Mariana Ricardo Inês Santana Metello When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe in 2020, the Portuguese Government took the opportunity to establish the health sector as a...