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Sanofi looking to hire Alstom’s chief executive

March 6, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, alstom, kron

Sanofi is proposing to replace Lord Douro at the French firm with Patrick Kron as its new independent director. Kron …

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Manufacturing hitches cited for Lilly/BI drug rejection

March 6, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, FDA, diabetes, lilly, manufacturing

The FDA has refused to approve a new diabetes treatment from Lilly and its partner Boehringer Ingelheim due to ongoing …

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New chief executive for Parkinson’s Institute

March 6, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Carrolee Barlow, Parkinson’s Institute

The Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center has appointed neuroscience and neurodegeneration expert Dr Carrolee Barlow as its new chief executive. …

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Alzheimer’s tie-up for Eisai and Biogen

March 6, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, BAN2401, Biogen IDEC, E2609, Eisai

Eisai and Biogen Idec have joined forces to look for new Alzheimer’s treatments, developing and commercialising two of the Japanese …

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Smart pills ‘set to boom’

March 5, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing frost and sullivan, rajan, smart pills, smartpills

There will be an explosion in the development of smart pills used for internal imaging and even drug delivery within …

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Twitter useful for tracking HIV outbreaks

March 5, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AIDS, HIV, Twitter, digital, flu, ucla, virus, wells

A study by UCLA researchers has shown that Twitter and social media can be used as a practical real-time tool …

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Canbex Therapeutics hires chief medical officer



March 5, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Canbex Therapeutics

UK biotech firm Canbex Therapeutics has appointed former Lilly head Dr Alberto Lledó as its new chief medical officer (CMO). …

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NICE U-turn on Pfizer drug Inlyta

March 5, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kidney cancer, NHS, NICE, Pfizer, axitinib, inlyta

NICE has recommended that Pfizer’s kidney cancer drug Inlyta should be used for some patients in England, following a similar …

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Cobra agrees oncology deal with BioCancell

March 4, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development BC-821, Cobra, biocancell, oncology

Contract manufacturing organisation Cobra Biologics has signed a deal with specialist oncology biopharma firm BioCancell to manufacture an investigational cancer …

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Clinical studies still not being published

March 4, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, EMA, alltrials, clinical trials, csr

Half of all trials registered on a US clinical study database are not being published in public journals. This is …

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CluePoints appoints three heads

March 4, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing cluepoints, colby, polvent, stephenne

Clinical trial data firm CluePoints has announced three new appointments to its global team. John Colby (pictured) and Elizabeth Polvent join …

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Alexion ‘concerned’ over NICE draft

March 4, 2014
Sales and Marketing NICE, aHUS, alexia, blood, eculizumab, soliris

Alexion Pharmaceuticals UK has expressed ‘concern’ that NICE has not yet allowed its rare disease treatment Soliris to be formally …

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Exploring the Amber™ auto injector

March 4, 2014
Manufacturing and Production amber autoinjector, auto injector, shl group

SHL first introduced the Amber™ auto injector utilizing Pushclick™ technology at the PDA (Parental Drug Association) event in Basel, Switzerland …

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Print adverts’ prescribing info could be axed

March 3, 2014
Medical Communications MHRA, OTC, medicines, prescribing

The UK drugs regulator is proposing new rules that could see pharma update safety information for their medicines online, whilst …

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Roche lung cancer drug fails

March 3, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, MetMAb, NSCLC, Roche, Tarceva, avastin

An independent data monitoring committee has told Roche to halt a study of its experimental lung cancer drug MetMab due …

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Xarelto lift for Bayer

March 3, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Eylea, Stivarga, Xarelto, blood thinner, xofigo

Bayer Group says sales of its blood thinner Xarelto will be higher than it had predicted, with peak annual sales …

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Cello unifies all its health agencies

March 3, 2014
Medical Communications Cello, Cello Business Sciences, Insight Research Group, Mash Health Group, MedErgy HealthGroup, The MSI Consultancy

The Cello Group has unified all its health-orientated agencies in order to operate under one umbrella brand called Cello Health. …

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GSK submits new Promacta licence

March 3, 2014
Sales and Marketing GSK, NICE, Promacta, Revolade, blood, eltrombopag

GlaxoSmithKline is seeking a new licence for its blood disorder drug Promacta in patients with severe aplastic anaemia. Specifically, the …

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dna Medical Communications hires MD

March 3, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing dna Medical Communications, neil flash

Neil Flash has joined healthcare agency dna Medical Communications as the managing director for its UK team. Flash joined dna …

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Look beyond the screen

March 3, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, cliinical, data, screening, trials

It makes sense, doesn’t it? You have a drug that’s effective for a certain disease, but no patients. What do …

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