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Lonza adds executive committee member

June 12, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Lonza, sven Abend

Sven Abend is joining Swiss chemicals and biotech giant Lonza to serve on its executive committee. From July Abend will …

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Novo Nordisk outlines hiring plans

June 12, 2014
Sales and Marketing Denmark, Novo Nordisk, diabetes, haemostasis, pharma

Novo Nordisk has outlined ambitious plans for the medium-term, saying it will look to hire 6,000 staff in its native …

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Bristol-Myers Squibb hires new general manager





June 11, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amadou Diarra, BMS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johanna Mercier

Johanna Mercier has been appointed as Bristol-Myers Squibb’s general manager for the UK and Ireland.  The appointment of Mercier who …

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Allergan rejects Valeant – again

June 11, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Allergan, Botox, Valeant, pershing, pharma

Allergan and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International are continuing their stately dance around one another – and in the latest move the …

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Researchers question ‘bias’ NICE on statins

June 11, 2014
Sales and Marketing Drug pricing, Haslam, NHS, NICE, statins

Doctors are warning that NICE’s desire to increase prescriptions of statins in England is based on pharma-funded research that ignores …

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Cello hires digital director from YouGov

June 11, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cello, brilot, yougov

Healthcare market research agency Cello Health Insight has appointed a new digital director in Dan Brilot. Brilot is to work …

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MediCity hub moves forward

June 11, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, BioCity, alderley park, johnson, medcity, medicity

 Nine new businesses have signed tenancy agreements at Nottingham’s MediCity, bringing to 20 the number of companies which have been …

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InterMune drops EMA lawsuit over data release

June 10, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, EU, Esbriet, Goldacre, InterMune, alltrials, lung

InterMune has ended a year-long legal spat with the European Medicines Agency over the potential release of data for its …

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Merck buys Idenix

June 10, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing HCV, IDX21437, IDX21459, Merck, hep C, idenix

Merck is to improve its pipeline of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments by splashing out $3.85 billion on biopharma firm …

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Dendreon chief resigns from struggling firm

June 10, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Dendreon, John Johnson, Provenge, Vaccine, Watson, prostate

Chief executive of Dendreon John Johnson is to step down in the summer amid falling sales of the company’s key …

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Sovaldi hurdles first drug pricing barrier

June 10, 2014
Sales and Marketing Gilead, SMC, Scotland, hep C, sofosbuvir, sovaldi

Scotland’s NHS will pay for Gilead’s new hepatitis C pill Sovaldi despite rising concern over its high cost. The Scottish …

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Langland hires business unit director

June 10, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Langland, Michael Le Brocq

Healthcare advertising agency Langland has appointed Michael Le Brocq as business unit director for its Ethical division.  Also joining the …

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Lilly app targets depression

June 10, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Android, depression, iphone, lilly, talking progress

Eli Lilly has launched a free mobile app for Android and iPhone handsets which aims to support patients who suffer …

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Child flu pilot ‘encouraging’

June 9, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing UK, Vaccine, chid, children, flu, government, phd

Figures from the child flu vaccine pilot launched last year by Public Health England (PHE) are encouraging, the government says. …

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Pharma, digital and patients: a healthy concoction?

June 9, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing adams, digital, epatient, pharma

A young woman sits stunned in an oncologist’s office, unsure of where to look or how to react to the …

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IDEA Pharma appoints account manager

June 9, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing idea, ritacco

IDEA Pharma has hired Rick Ritacco as an account manager to join its New York practice working with the company’s …

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Penn Pharma starts operations

June 9, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing API, Penn Pharma, Wales, manufacturing, south

Penn Pharma has opened its expanded facility in South Wales, after a £3 million investment which will allow it to …

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Pradaxa gets DVT indication

June 6, 2014
Sales and Marketing Boehringer, DVT, Pradaxa, blood, dabigatran etexilate, thinner

Pradaxa has been given approval in Europe to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) just a week …

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Bayer announces more changes at the top

June 6, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Dieter Weinand, Otsuka, dekkers, healthcare

US-based president at Japanese drugmaker Otsuka, Dieter Weinand, is to join Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals as the new head of its …

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Andy Burnham: NHS needs a ‘reset’

June 6, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, burnham, confederation, reset

The NHS must be ‘reset’ in order to make it into a 21st century health service, according to shadow health …

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