The Top 5 Biosimilars Articles for 2017

At the Festival of Biologics, Juliana (Julie) Reed, executive director of the Biosimilars Forum, warned that without changes to encourage biosimilar uptake, companies will begin to ask the big question: Are biosimilars worth investing in?

On this episode of Not So Different, Mark Guyot, senior director of unity provider engagement at McKesson, gives an overview of McKesson’s real-world analysis of community oncology practices and their use of biosimilars and offers advice on overcoming adoption barriers and expanding education efforts.

In an article published in Frontiers in Pharmacy, researchers made recommendations to improve the biosimilar regulatory system and refine biosimilar guidelines in China.

On this episode of Not So Different, Vizient’s Carina Dolan, PharmD, MS, BCOP, expounds on some of the results from Vizient’s recent edition of its Pharmacy Market Outlook Report, including how inflation could influence biosimilar utilization.

Sarfaraz K. Niazi, PhD, explained why Indian manufacturers aren’t bringing biosimilars to the United States and how FDA policies and procedures discourage global companies from pursuing US market entry.

Increasing the use of biosimilars in Belgium will require realigning financial incentives and providing more information to medical professionals, according to authors of a study that proposed policy recommendations.