{"id":13693,"date":"2011-03-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/45-bio-brevetti-in-scadenza-capofila-toscana-e-campania\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:30:00","slug":"45-bio-brevetti-in-scadenza-capofila-toscana-e-campania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/45-bio-brevetti-in-scadenza-capofila-toscana-e-campania\/","title":{"rendered":"45 expiring bio-patents, led by Tuscany and Campania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">&quot;By 2015, as many as 45 important biological drugs in Italy will lose their commercial exclusivity&quot;, opening up the market for biosimilar products, &quot;for a value of approximately 500 million euros per year&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>Giorgio Foresti, president of Assogenerici, the association of industries that produce equivalent medicines, made the balance yesterday in Rome on the sidelines of the meeting &#039;Biotechnological drugs and governance&#039;. It will above all be medicines, recalled Foresti, &quot;for the treatment of important pathologies, mostly oncological.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The use of the generic equivalent and the biosimilar makes it possible to generate resources for innovation: it is now in the public domain that biological medicines are and will be increasingly used for the treatment of disabling and risky pathologies for the patient&#039;s life, such as for example amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. But the treatment of these pathologies has a very high cost and will be accessible to many affected patients only when expenditure is rationalized by introducing biosimilar drugs&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The Tuscany and Campania Regions are the leaders in the introduction of regulations that facilitate the use of these products: &quot;The former due to a long tradition of sensitivity towards this issue \u2013 highlighted Foresti \u2013 the latter due to needs linked to economic savings&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The fact is that the former has issued two measures (Decree 15\/2009 and 44\/2010) to encourage the use of biosimilars with an average savings target for treatment costs of at least 40%, while the latter intervened with a resolution ( 592 of 7 June 2010) which established that in public tenders only the composition, route of administration, therapeutic indications and any dosages must be indicated. &quot;And their example \u2013 concludes Foresti \u2013 will soon be followed by Piedmont, Molise, Calabria and Lazio&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Barbara Di Chiara \u2013 March 25, 2011 \u2013 Pharmakronos<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #228cb6; font-size: 11.5pt\">Soon Aifa-ministry document on biosimilars<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-family: BookAntiqua; color: #212120; mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua\"><font size=\"3\">&quot;A sharing document signed by the Ministry of Health and Aifa should arrive shortly, which establishes the principle of therapeutic bioequivalence between biological drugs and biosimilars and therefore opens up to single tenders for public structures&quot;. This was announced by Giorgio Foresti, president of Assogenerici, in Rome on the sidelines of the meeting &#039;Biotechnological drugs and governance&#039;. &quot;Also in the light of what was established in the Antitrust report to the Parliament - continued Foresti - we await this document, which should recognize in all respects the principles<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Entro il 2015, in Italia ben 45 importanti farmaci biologici perderanno la loro esclusiva commerciale&quot;, aprendo all&#8217;arrivo sul mercato di prodotti biosimilari, &quot;per un valore di circa 500 milioni di euro annui&quot;. &nbsp;A fare il bilancio &egrave; stato Giorgio Foresti, presidente di Assogenerici, l&#8217;Associazione delle industrie che producono medicinali equivalenti, ieri a Roma a margine &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}