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Hanover appoints former MHP executive

August 7, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Hanover, mhp

Med comms firm Hanover has appointed Richard Sloggett as its new associate director, poaching him from its rival MHP Health. …

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Astellas Pharma announces new senior hires

August 7, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Astellas

Astellas Pharma EMEA, the European division of Astellas Pharma, has appointed Simon Dew to the position of chief strategy officer …

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Cerner acquires Siemens Health Services for $1.3bn

August 7, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Health IT, Siemens, imaging, mhealth

Cerner Corporation has signed a deal sealing its takeover of Siemens Health Services for $1.3 billion in cash. Cerner will …

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AbbVie/Shire deal under threat from tax laws

August 7, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Shire, tax inversion

The £32 billion deal between AbbVie and Irish specialist biotech Shire could be under threat from new rules in the …

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New app allows blood imaging from a smartphone

August 7, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development app, digital, smartphone

An IT research team has developed a new smartphone app that works in conjunction with a small lens add-on that …

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Actelion becomes latest recruit to join PatientsLikeMe

August 6, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actelion, PatientsLikeMe, digital

PatientsLikeMe and Actelion have come together in order to help create a new patient-reported outcomes tool for the rare form …

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Liberation Communications promotes two

August 6, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Liberation Communications

Liberation Communications has made two promotions this August: Danielle Smith (right), has been promoted to account director whilst Vicky Smith …

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Precious Cells Group appoints NHS stem cell expert

August 6, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Stem cells

Precious Cells Group, a UK-based provider of stem cell technologies including Biobanking services, has appointed Dr Salmaan Dalvi as its …

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Roche gains new licence for blockbuster oncology drug

August 6, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EC, Roche, avastin, ovarian cancer

Roche’s blockbuster cancer treatment Avastin now has a new European licence to treat women with a certain type of ovarian …

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Pradaxa ‘safe’ says Australian regulator

August 6, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AF, Australia, BMJ, Pradaxa, stroke

Australia’s drug regulator says it will not be updating its safety advice for Boehringer’s Pradaxa despite mounting safety issues around …

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Novartis must drop vaccine price, says UK govt

August 5, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Bexsero, Novartis, innoculation, meningococcal vaccine

Novartis will have to significantly lower the price of its meningococcal B vaccine if it wants a lucrative UK inoculation …

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Blood cancer injection given green light

August 5, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MabThera, Roche, follicular lymphoma and small lymphocytic lymphoma

Roche has launched a new injection formulation of its blood cancer drug MabThera (rituximab) to treat patients with follicular lymphoma, …

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Gene silencing back on the books for Roche

August 5, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing RNA, Roche, Santaris, gene silencing

Roche will pay $450 million to acquire the RNA specialist firm Santaris Pharma in order to once again begin research …

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Astellas hires Moyra Knight as head of comms

August 4, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

Astellas has appointed industry veteran Moyra Knight as its new head of corporate and employee communications in the Americas region. …

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PM Society announces Digital Media Awards finalists

August 4, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing awards, digital, pm society

The finalists for the 2014 PM Society digital media awards have been announced as pharma and med comms agencies get …

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BMS sets up US research university initiative

August 4, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, academia, university

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ABPI president: NICE needs political reform

August 1, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Deepak Khanna, NICE, Pfizer, jonathan emms, vba

Jonathan Emms, the new president of the ABPI, is a man not shy about defending the rights of the UK …

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Minister calls for end of animal testing

August 1, 2014
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British MP Norman Baker has called for an end to all animal testing in the UK and promised to increase …

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Genomes Project gains £300m UK funding boost

August 1, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Genomics england, Illumina, NHS England, david cameron, genomes

A new funding stream aimed at helping British scientists map human DNA code will ‘revolutionise medicine’, according to prime minister …

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Boehringer’s Striverdi gains FDA approval

August 1, 2014
Sales and Marketing Advair, COPD, Pfizer, Spiriva, asthma, olodaterol

Boehringer Ingelheim’s new lung drug Striverdi has gained US approval for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder. Striverdi Respimat (olodaterol), …

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