27 February 2020 Malaysia Interrupted Health Policies And Laws When Pakatan Fell Deregulation of medical practitioners’ consultation fees, jail for not issuing prescriptions upon request, drug price controls, promotion of contract government doctors, vaping regulations, mySalam, and health financing reform.
21 January 2020 Malaysia MOH Hopes To Control Medicine Prices By Year-End The Health Ministry also pans a survey that found Malaysia has among the cheapest prices globally for some popular prescription drugs.
16 January 2020 World Philippines’ Medicine Price Controls Will Boost Sales, Competition, Fitch Says Majority of the drugs affected by the Philippines’ maximum retail price scheme are new treatments for cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular conditions.
14 January 2020 Malaysia Fitch: Drug Price Controls Will Benefit Malaysia’s Pharmaceutical Market Companies may benefit from a higher sales volume, offsetting some losses from lower medicine prices.
13 December 2019 Opinion Revisiting The Costs Of Medicine Price Controls Using cheaper but less effective drugs may lead to higher usage of other health care resources like hospitalisation.
11 December 2019 Malaysia Medical Inflation Justifies Drug Price Controls, MOH Says A study shows Malaysia has the third lowest medicine prices in the world.
9 December 2019 Malaysia Competition Beats Medicine Price Controls, UK Expert Tells Malaysia The Office of Health Economics researcher suggests dispensing separation so patients can get cheaper drugs from pharmacies.
20 November 2019 Malaysia MOH: Medicine Price Controls Just A ‘Pilot’, Won’t Decimate Industry Proposed drug price ceilings are not designed to have a big impact, says an MOH official.
20 November 2019 Malaysia PhAMA: Rural Clinics, Pharmacies May Close If Medicine Prices Controlled Multinational drug makers instead advocate declaration of wholesale prices in a free market.
8 November 2019 Opinion Empower Parliament To Examine Health Policies A Parliament committee should examine the case for drug price controls or a vaping ban.