Iran
Industry
BMI View: Despite the positive rhetoric emanating from Iran on the country's ability to export medical radioisotopes and medical devices elsewhere in the region, the truth is that the...
2011-09-09Industry
BMI View: Since discovering new data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the import dependence and average pharmaceutical mark-ups within Iran, BMI has upgraded its historic...
2011-06-14Industry
BMI View: Although Iran has the expertise to make complex medicines such as the biosimilar Cinnovex (recombinant interferon beta-1a), it will face problems selling them to the international...
2010-09-21Industry
Iranian drugmaker Soha Pharmaceuticals has mass produced generic copies of venflaxine and the antibiotic clindamycin. Whether these are approved generic versions is unclear, but BMI...
2010-03-30Industry
In BMI's recent analysis of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) pharmaceutical market, we highlighted Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the biggest medicine spenders - reaching values of...
2010-02-05Industry
The Iranian Ministry of Health has announced that it is developing the country's biotechnology industry over the long term to ensure self-sufficiency in the pharmaceutical sector....
2010-01-13Industry
Iran's Ministry of Health is to begin reimbursing locally developed HIV/AIDS medicine IMOD (immuno-modulator drug) in a decision that could benefit the 66,000 Iranians estimated to...
2008-01-04Industry
Iran's government is to commit around one sixth of its budget to healthcare-related functions for the financial year April 2008 - March 2009 according to the Ministry of Health. Approximately...
2007-12-11
