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Teva vice chairman quits

December 17, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Teva, amir elstein, moshe many

Teva Pharmaceuticals vice chairman Professor Moshe Many has requested to leave the firm at the end of this month for …

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Novartis shuts plant in Canada cutting 300 jobs

December 16, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Canada, Novartis, Ontario, cuts, lens, manufacturing

Novartis is shutting down its manufacturing plant in Canada which will result in 300 people losing their jobs at the …

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NICE must get tougher on pharma, urges BMJ journal

December 16, 2013
Sales and Marketing BMJ, NHS, NICE, pharma

The UK should have one universal health technology assessor which should seek to tighten up rules on whether new drugs …

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BMS appoints Thomas Lynch to board

December 16, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, lynch

Bristol-Myers Squibb has elected Thomas Lynch to its board to serve as a member on its Science and Technology Committee …

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The year in review 2013

December 13, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 2014, NHS, Obama, adams, review of the year

The year 2013 brought a new series of challenges for pharma. As the dust settled following the bulk of major …

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Chiesi publicly reprimanded

December 13, 2013
Sales and Marketing ABPI, Chiesi, PMCPA, fostair

Chiesi has had the book thrown at it by the PMCPA and faces the shame of a public reprimand – …

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UK government creates apocalyptic app

December 13, 2013
Medical Communications UK, digital, government, the walk

The Department of Health has this week released an Apple and Android game app designed to get the UK public …

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Sanofi escapes most serious censure

December 13, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Lyxumia, PMCPA, Sanofi, censure

Sanofi has been cleared of the most serious breach of the ABPI Code of Practice – despite appearing to offer …

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McCann Health names president of New York unit

December 13, 2013
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Comms giant McCann Health has hired Susan Duffy to be president of its New York-based McCann Regan Campbell Ward (RCW). …

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AstraZeneca donates doomed lab to Plymouth University

December 12, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, lab, plymouth, university

AstraZeneca has pledged to donate its Devon-based Environmental Laboratory to Plymouth University, after announcing the site’s closure in October. The …

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Ketchum head leaves amid job cuts

December 12, 2013
Medical Communications Ketchum, comms, cuts, digital, sefton

The healthcare division of comms agency giant Ketchum is weathering a tough month following job cuts and a key resignation. …

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€16 million fines for J&J and Novartis

December 12, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing EU, J&J, JJ, Novartis, Sandoz, fentanyl, fines

The European Commission has slapped multi-million euro fines on Johnson & Johnson and Novartis for what it says were ‘shocking’ …

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GSK funnels another £200m into UK manufacturing

December 12, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing GSK, Taylor, UK, manufacturing

GlaxoSmithKline has made good on a pledge to invest in UK-based production, with £200 million ($328m) earmarked for plant upgrades …

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Priority review for Gaucher drug

December 12, 2013
Sales and Marketing EMA, FDA, Gaucher, Genzyme, Sanofi

The FDA is to conduct a speedy investigation into Sanofi’s twice-daily oral candidate for Gaucher disease, which means that Cerdelga …

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ABPI appoints nightclub owner as new NHS manager

December 12, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, nightclub, tugnet

The ABPI has appointed Raj Tugnet as its new NHS partnership manager to lead ABPI activities on academic health science …

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Novo Nordisk faces police probe

December 11, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing FDA, Novo Nordisk, police

Novo Nordisk is facing an investigation from Denmark’s police over delaying the release of negative information it received from the …

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UK government doubles dementia funding

December 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Cameron, Merck, Obama, dementia

UK prime minister David Cameron has announced that the government is to increase funding research into dementia, spending £52 million …

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Twitter ‘drama’ produces drubbing for Medivir

December 11, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Medivir, Twitter, digital, nasdaq

A NASDAQ disciplinary committee has found Medivir guilty of breaching its rules after data from a trial was posted on …

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AbbVie posts strong results for Hep C pill

December 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 3D, AbbVie, FDA, Gilead, hep C

AbbVie’s investigational hepatitis C pill cured 96% of difficult-to-treat patients in a late-stage clinical trial and looks set to muscle …

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Mike Nally replaces Deepak Khanna as MSD head

December 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Deepak Khanna, MSD, mike nally

Merck Sharp & Dohme has confirmed that Mike Nally will succeed Deepak Khanna as managing director for MSD in the …

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