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New chief medical officer for TeamHealth

August 19, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing miles, snowden, teamhealth

Outsourced doctor staffing US firm TeamHealth Holdings has appointed Dr Miles Snowden as the company’s chief medical officer (CMO). Snowden …

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Science will ‘lose out’ if Scotland chooses independence

August 18, 2014
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The new minister for UK life sciences George Freeman has warned that independence from England “would damage Scotland’s edge in …

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Top four cancer killer rates ‘fall by a third’

August 18, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CRUK, Cancer, bowel, charity, lung, prostate, research

Death rates for breast, bowel, lung and prostate cancer combined have fallen by almost a third in the last 20 …

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FDA approves Biogen’s long-acting MS drug

August 18, 2014
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Biogen Idec has racked up another approval over the weekend after its latest multiple sclerosis treatment Plegridy gained FDA backing. …

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The end of salesmanship?

August 18, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, Rose, a bpi, all trials, evidence, gold acre, sales, salesmanship

Although my specialism for the last 35 years has been clinical research, I actually started in the pharmaceutical industry as …

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Oxford BioMedica takes on executive position

August 18, 2014
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Gene and cell therapy firm Oxford BioMedica has confirmed that non-executive director Dr Paul Blake has been appointed to the …

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Charities ‘disappointed’ in NICE and Janssen

August 15, 2014
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Janssen, NHS, NICE, Zytiga, prostate

The Institute of Cancer Research and Prostate Cancer UK are both urging NICE and Janssen to ‘get their act together’ …

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Life hires principal writer from PAN

August 15, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Catriona Hampton, Life, Pan

Catriona Hampton has joined Life Healthcare Communications in Windsor, UK as a principal writer. Hampton who graduated in Immunology at …

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SHL to exhibit at the 2014 PDA Conference in California, USA

August 15, 2014
Sales and Marketing auto injector, pda 2014, shl event, shl pda 2014

The growth of the auto injector industry has been driven largely in part by the need to improve patient compliance …

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InterMune stock jumps on suitor claims

August 14, 2014
Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Esbriet, FDA, GSK, IPF, InterMune

Riding high of the success of its new lung drug Esbriet, InterMune has become the focus of some serious takeover …

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Vertex ditches its once-stellar hep C drug

August 14, 2014
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Vertex will stop selling its once-blockbuster hepatitis C drug in the US this autumn after being crushed by new therapies. …

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Amgen cancer drug fails key test

August 14, 2014
Sales and Marketing Amgen, Cancer, Kyprolis, myeloma

Amgen’s new rare cancer drug has failed in a late-stage trial just a year after the US biotech spent $10.4 …

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New chief executive for Medivir

August 14, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Medivir, Niklas Prager

Niklas Prager has been named as the new president and chief executive of Sweden-based pharma firm Medivir. Starting in September, …

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Pharma publisher confirms two hires

August 13, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Samedan, george underwood, pharmafile. pharmafocus, tom robinson

Samedan Pharmaceutical Publishers has appointed two editorial and production assistants to join Pharmafile and Pharmafocus. Tom Robinson (pictured right) joins Pharmafile …

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NHS in Scotland deploys mobile healthcare

August 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, Safe Patient Systems, Scotland, digital, nhs scotland, tablets

Mobile healthcare firm Safe Patient Systems is partnering with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) to provide mobile healthcare services …

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Pfizer teams up with Google-backed 23andMe

August 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 23andME, Crohn’s disease, Pfizer, google, ulcerative colitis

Pfizer and genetics testing firm 23andMe have come together in a research pact aimed at finding the genetic cause of …

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Sanofi signs $925 million inhaled insulin deal

August 13, 2014
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Sanofi could pay out as much as $925 million for global rights to the world’s only approved inhaled insulin just …

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Cancer Research UK appeals for clarity on Wikipedia

August 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Cancer Research UK, wikimania, wikipedia

Cancer Research UK is calling upon the medical community to become more involved with Wikipedia to ensure better accuracy of …

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Untested Ebola drugs can be used in Africa

August 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Ebola, Siga Technologies, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, WHO, world health organization, zmapp

The World Health Organization will allow untested treatments for Ebola to be used in West Africa as the death toll …

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Cost of diabetes treatment soars in England

August 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Lantus, NHS, Sanofi, diabetes

The NHS spent more than £2.2 million on average every day over the last financial year on diabetes medicines, according …

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