Thailand

Thailand's public sector pharmaceutical spending is inflated by drugmakers' aggressive marketing tactics. Last year, almost 40% of the THB158.6bn (US$4.78bn) state healthcare budget... 2009-12-16

The term 'medical breakthrough' is frequently overused by the mass media. New drugs, devices or surgical techniques are usually just marginal improvements on previous interventions... 2009-09-25

Excessive drug prices in Thailand have been highlighted again. Because the foreign firms that make these medicines are generating significant profit, government officials from the... 2009-06-01

Singapore is the only Asia Pacific country not to be mentioned in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)'s 2009 Special 301 Report or the Pharmaceutical Research... 2009-05-12

BMI's Drug Expenditure Forecast Model has been indirectly validated by a third party. On February 13 2009, the tool showed that pharmaceuticals sales in Thailand would slow in 2009... 2009-04-01

BMI calculates that sales of pharmaceuticals in Myanmar reached US$200mn in 2008. This equates to annual per capita spending of just US$3.63, which is below that of neighbouring Thailand... 2009-03-31

Thailand's leading drugmaker, the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO), has offered to manufacture and distribute certain medicines listed under the country's controversial... 2008-03-14