REMEDIUM

The article reviews the history of development of legislation covering prices of medicines in the Russian Federation and describes specifics of the current situation in this sphere.

Recently, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (hereinafter the «Constitutional Court») clarified the procedure for recovery of damages from natural persons caused by tax crimes in the amount of tax arrears and fines not received by the respective budget from the taxpayer organization.

Anew list of vital and essential drugs (VED) for human use, which came into force on January 1, 2018, comprises sixty new names, a large part of which are drugs for the treatment of cancer. In particular, a total of 3 innovative medicinal products used for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) have been entered into the list [1].

Following the worldwide trend, Russia has been consistently fighting the spread of tobacco smoking in the past few years. Serious changes should occur this year after the amendments to the anti-tobacco law prepared by the RF Ministry of Health come into force.

Schizophrenia is one of the most severe chronic relapsing mental illnesses. The disease not only causes significant discomfort to others and the patient, but also shortens his life span by an average of 15-25 years. At the same time, in most cases the achievements of modern medicine help not only achieve a positive effect in treatment, but also contribute to more successful adaptation of patients in society.

Extracting valuable insights from vast quantities of data becomes a key factor in developing new competitive advantages and companies' growth and creates the prerequisites for changing business processes in the pharmaceutical industry. The analysis of video data obtained from various sources is one of the methods for processing big data. Intelligent video surveillance systems built on hardware devices enabling solutions designed to automatically detect events that will match the predefined criteria and reaction to the systems disclosure according to the established rule in real time can analyse significant volumes of video information. The analysis was performed using a state-of-the art video monitoring system with a unique video analytics complex, which has the function of the People Counting module. The analysis of 800 GB of video data provided information on the visitor traffic dynamics during various working hours, which showed that the average number of visitors per time unit (hour) depends both on the time of year and the time of day. Nevertheless, the variability of pharmacy visitor traffic cannot be called high; it can be characterized as moderate (minimum 17%, maximum 40%). But even a moderate variability of visitor traffic affects the intensity of labour of pharmaceutical personnel.

The rating was carried out on the basis of the state reported financials of over 60 profitable pharma industry enterprises.

The performance analysis of industry enterprises is carried out using the state statistical reporting of the industry enterprises.

Financial status of the industry companies is analysed on the basis of state statistical reporting form No. P-3 Information on Company Financial Status (monthly).

Производство отдельных групп медицинских изделий за декабрь 2017 г. Динамика производства основных ФТГ за декабрь 2017 г. Топ-20 МНН ГЛС по объему импорта ГЛС в Россию в октябре 2017 г. Топ-20 импортеров ГЛС по объему импорта в Россию в октябре 2017 г. Топ-20 производителей ГЛС по объему импорта в Россию в октябре 2017 г. Топ-20 торговых наименований ГЛС по объему экспорта ГЛС из России в октябре 2017 г. Топ-20 АТС-групп 2-го уровня по объему импорта ГЛС в Россию в октябре 2017 г. Топ-20 импортеров по объему экспорта ГЛС из России в октябре 2017 г.