03/10/2018 (Agence Europe) – The European Parliament is ready to start negotiations with the Council on health technology assessment. Not surprisingly, the European Parliament has adopted the report prepared by Soledad Cabezón Ruiz (S&D, Spanish) on behalf of the Environment Committee by 576 votes to 56 with 41 abstentions. The text calls for mandatory joint evaluations for medicines and certain medical devices / in vitro devices "considered as major innovations with potentially...