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Just:: appoints digital specialist

May 14, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Daniel Prideaux, Just, Just::, digital

Just:: Health Communications has hired Daniel Prideaux to head-up its digital offering.  Prideaux joins from DigitasLBi and previously worked at …

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NICE: no early Zytiga use

May 14, 2014
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Janssen has criticised NICE’s decision not to recommend Zytiga on the NHS at an earlier stage in the prostate cancer …

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Toshiba creates disease diagnosis tool

May 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Disease, Japan, breath analyser, toshiba

Japan’s multinational electronics firm Toshiba has developed a breath-analysing prototype system that it says can be used to diagnose diseases.  …

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Teva considers up to 27 plant closures

May 13, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Copaxone, Nerventra, Teva, cuts, generics

Teva is to close 11 of its production sites, with another 16 facilities ‘under evaluation’, as part of a major …

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Valeant ‘substantially undervalues’ Allergan

May 13, 2014
Sales and Marketing Allergan, Botox, Pfizer, Valeant, buyout, merger

Allergan’s board has issued a defiant, unanimous rejection of the multi-billion dollar takeover offer made public by Valeant last month. In …

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Ranbaxy woes hit profits

May 13, 2014
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Indian generics maker Ranbaxy Laboratories has slipped up in the first quarter of the year, with profit sliding to 0.3 …

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Biotec hires non-executive director

May 13, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Biotec, ashley cooper

Logistics services firm Biotec Services International has expanded its board with the appointment of a non-executive director. Joining the UK-headquartered …

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Poll: UK opposed to Pfizer takeover bid of AZ

May 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cameron, Pfizer, UK, buyout, merger, research

The UK’s largest union says a new poll shows that the vast majority of the British public are against Pfizer’s …

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SHL to attend the 2014 PDA Japan: A collaborative approach to developing combination products

May 13, 2014
Medical Communications auto injector, autoinjectors, pda japan 2014, pen injector, shl pda 2014

Tokyo, Japan – SHL, the world’s largest privately-owned designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery devices, announced today that …

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‘Star Wars’ robot arm approved by FDA

May 12, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing FDA, arm, deka arm system, luke, star wars

The FDA has approved a first of its kind robotic arm that can be used to make complex tasks far …

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Boehringer launches new transparency regime

May 12, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, LEO Pharma, all trials, csr, transparency

Boehringer is making good on its 2013 promise to release more clinical trial data to researchers with the launch of …

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AZ ‘consulted first’ by UK government after Pfizer bid

May 12, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, George Osborne, Pfizer, Wellcome Trust, david cameron

UK prime minister David Cameron has rejected claims that his government is prioritising discussions with Pfizer over its proposed acquisition …

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Pfizer signs universities deal

May 12, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Pfizer, academics, rare diseases

Pfizer has signed a five-year research deal with several top British universities to hunt for new treatments for rare disease. …

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‘Bioscience is cornerstone’ of Alderley Park

May 12, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AZ, AstraZeneca, alderley, msp, research

Manchester Science Parks (MSP), the new owners of the 400-acre Alderley Park facility, has pledged to keep its activities “at …

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Lundbeck buys Chelsea Therapeutics

May 12, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Chelsea Therapeutics, Lundbeck

Lundbeck could pay as much as $658 million for neurological disorder specialist Chelsea Therapeutics as the firm looks to shore …

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Clinical trials transparency: the journey so far

May 12, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, alltrials, rawal, transparency

There has been considerable publicity over the last year or two about transparency of information in clinical trials. However, activity …

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Talentmark hires Benelux executive search head

May 12, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Talentmark, lebbink

Life sciences recruitment firm Talentmark has confirmed Christiaan Lebbink is to join the firm covering the Benelux and continental European region Lebbink, …

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Merck’s vorapaxar gains long-awaited FDA approval

May 9, 2014
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Merck’s heart drug vorapaxar has finally been given the FDA go-ahead after looking dead in the water less than two …

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AstraZeneca begins lung cancer trial

May 9, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, MEDI4736, NSCLC, lung cancer

AstraZeneca, currently at the centre of a £63 billion bid from US giant Pfizer, has begun a late-stage trial of …

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Wellcome Trust slams Pfizer/AstraZeneca bid

May 9, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GSK, Pfizer, Read, astrazenca, emms, merger, takeover

The UK’s largest and most respected medical research charity the Wellcome Trust has warned that Pfizer’s potential takeover of AstraZeneca …

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