Zurich Insurance Group (Switzerland)

Design Approaches for Oxygen Reduction Systems for Warehouse Storage Applications

ABSTRACT Oxygen reduction systems (ORS) are protection systems, with a design protection objective to limit fire spread beyond the point of ignition. Research has shown that the prescriptive design methods, in VdS 3527, EN 16750, and ISO 20338, are not appropriate as prescriptive...

Rigorous, transparent and inconclusive: what Europe’s first joint clinical assessment reveals about a framework trying to serve everyone

On 30 April 2026, the Member State Coordination Group on Health Technology Assessment endorsed Europe’s first joint clinical assessment (JCA) under Regulation (EU) 2021/2282, evaluating tovorafenib (Ojemda) for pediatric low-grade glioma harboring BRAF alterations. This perspecti...