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US shutdown affecting medical science

October 11, 2013
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American scientists and the latest Nobel Prize winners have condemned the US shutdown this week saying it is putting scientific …

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Teva to axe 5,000 jobs in savings drive

October 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Copaxone, FDA, Teva, cuts

The world’s largest generic drugmaker Teva will cut around 5,000 jobs from its global workforce as it looks to speed-up …

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Alzheimer’s research ‘turning point’

October 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s, MRC, research

There is new hope that Alzheimer’s disease could be cured, according to a discovery by scientists from the Medical Research …

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Glide Pharma confirms Board changes and chairman

October 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Glide Pharma, morton

Pharma development and device firm Glide Pharma has appointed EUSA Pharma’s founder Bryan Morton as a non-executive chairman. The company …

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PAN hires new associate director and head of Art

October 10, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Pan, burchell, ohare, reiss

Creative agency PAN has strengthened its senior team with the arrival of Jan Reiss as associate director and the promotion …

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NHS ‘behind the curve’, warns government

October 10, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, curve, technology

The government is on track to deliver a paperless NHS by 2018, according to parliamentary undersecretary of state for health …

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Sanofi appoints senior vice president

October 10, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, warnery

Vincent Warnery has been appointed as the senior vice president to Sanofi’s new Global Consumer Healthcare Division. He will remain …

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Lilly staff ‘divulged secrets’

October 10, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing China, bribery, lilly

Two former staff from Eli Lilly & Company have been accused in a US court of passing on industrial secrets …

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Life makes senior changes

October 10, 2013
Medical Communications Life Healthcare

Marketing comms agency Life has restructured as several senior personnel change their positions and titles. Reg Manser is leaving his …

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Janssen takes on GSK hep C drug

October 9, 2013
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals has acquired one of GlaxoSmithKline’s investigational hepatitis C treatments and will look at it in combination with various …

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SMC must be ‘more flexible’ – health minister

October 9, 2013
Sales and Marketing CDF, NICE, SMC

The Scottish health secretary Alex Neil has announced a series of fundamental changes to improve access to new medicines in …

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Bayer pill gains FDA approval despite shutdown

October 9, 2013
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In the midst of the US shutdown of government agencies the FDA has managed to approve Bayer’s Adempas for patients …

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Three hires for RSA

October 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Interim, life sciences, rsa

Life sciences executive search and interim management firm RSA has made three appointments to its European team. Elmar Scheuba has …

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Nobel Prize could point to diabetes treatment

October 9, 2013
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The Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology has been won jointly by three scientists whose research has uncovered the mechanism …

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EMA bows to pressure on its own transparency

October 8, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EFPIA, EMA, Guido Rasi, transparency

The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s management board has agreed to publish agendas and minutes from the meetings of all the …

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GSK sets malaria vaccine roll-out date to 2015

October 8, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Vaccine, malaria, rts, s

GlaxoSmithKline says it is just two years away from marketing the world’s first malaria vaccine RTS,S. This follows results from …

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Aesica gets bigger in pre-filled syringes

October 8, 2013
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UK contract development and manufacturing organisation Aesica is expanding production capacity for pre-filled syringes at its plant in Nottingham to …

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Red Door Communications appoints three managers

October 8, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Red Door Communications

Comms agency Red Door Communications (RDC) has strengthened its consultancy team with the appointment of three new senior account managers. …

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US shutdown derided by pharma groups

October 7, 2013
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New UK drug pricing plans ‘delayed’

October 7, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Drug pricing, Hunt, Lansley, NHS, NICE, VBP

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