Value-added medicines: how repurposed medicines bring value to patients and pharmacists

Author byline as per print journal: Christoph Stoller; Professor Stephan Krähenbühl, MD, PhD; Emilia Minodora Voiculescu, PharmD Abstract: The Value Added Medicines Group of Medicines for Europe met at the 2017 European Association of Hospital Pharmacists conference in France to discuss the merits and future of these medicines. Submitted: 13 June 2017; Revised: 23 August 2017; Accepted: […]


Where does the value of ‘value-added’ pharmaceuticals come from?

Abstract: The role of sound science, discovery, and innovation in value-added pharmaceuticals has not been sufficiently considered. This term is mainly used to define improved version of generic drugs. The concept of value-added pharmaceuticals has been picked up by different groups of companies, some are aiming to increase willingness to pay for their modified pharmaceutical […]


The refinement of the super generic concept: semantic challenge for product re-innovation?

Background: Uptake of super generic or hybrid pharmaceuticals has decelerated despite their important economic potential for the generic pharmaceutical industry. The aim of switching to these product portfolios was to enable product differentiation; however, these strategies are influenced by new semantic challenges, which have hampered the promotion of value-added pharmaceuticals or super generics in recent […]