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UK doctors must prepare for the rise of the ‘ePatient’

August 9, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, GPs, digital

Doctors and other healthcare professionals must prepare for the rise of ‘ePatients’ in the coming years and keep apace with …

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ABPI appoints UK pharma team to head VBP discussion

August 8, 2012
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, VBP

The ABPI has announced the team which will represent the pharma industry in negotiations with the government to agree the …

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Pfizer pays $60m in bribery cases

August 8, 2012
Sales and Marketing DoJ, FDA, GSK, Janssen, Pfizer, Wyeth, bribery

Pfizer has been fined $60 million for making improper payments to doctors in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The …

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AstraZeneca and BTG sepsis drug fails

August 8, 2012
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AZD977, AstraZeneca, BTG, CytoFab, sepsis

AstraZeneca’s pipeline has suffered another blow with the troubled company halting development of an investigational sepsis drug following poor Phase …

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Appointments made to NHS property services

August 8, 2012
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Charles Howeson, NHS

The company set up by the government to manage all the ex-PCT estate not transferred to providers (NHS Property Services), …

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GSK’s Votrient gains new licence

August 8, 2012
Sales and Marketing GSK, NICE, Votrient, soft cell sarcoma

GlaxoSmithKline has gained a new European licence for its cancer pill Votrient adding to its renal cell carcinoma licence. The …

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Regeneron to expand workforce at New York facility

August 8, 2012
Manufacturing and Production Arcalyst, Eylea, Regeneron, Zaltrap

Buoyant product sales at US biotech Regeneron have prompted the company to undertake a recruitment drive at its manufacturing facility …

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Champix better than patches for smoking cessation

August 7, 2012
Sales and Marketing Champix, FDA, Pfizer, Zyban, smoking

New research shows that Pfizer’s Champix is better than nicotine patch therapy at helping smokers kick the habit. A Pfizer …

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Ticking all the Boxes

August 7, 2012
Manufacturing and Production

Pharmaceutical packaging has many functions to perform but in the OTC area of the market brand owners and product manufactures …

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GE and iBio expand plant production alliance

August 7, 2012
Manufacturing and Production GE Healthcare, iBio, iBioLaunch

GE Healthcare and iBio have forged an alliance to commercialise plant-based technologies for the manufacture of biologic drugs and vaccines. …

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Boehringer wins contract to make Servier’s gevokizumab

August 7, 2012
Manufacturing and Production Boehringer Ingelheim, CMO, Servier, antibody

Boehringer Ingelheim’s contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) division will provide commercial-scale manufacturing of a new monoclonal antibody developed by Servier and …

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AstraZeneca launches prostate cancer app

August 7, 2012
Medical Communications AZ, AstraZeneca, PSA, Zoladex, diabetes, prostate

AstraZeneca has launched a new app that helps prostate cancer patients to monitor their PSA levels. It is not the …

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Horizon Discovery appoints chief financial officer

August 7, 2012
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Horizon Discovery, Richard Vellacott

Horizon Discovery has announced the appointment of Richard Vellacott as chief financial officer. The firm which is a provider of …

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What Does E-Detailing Entail? How E-Detailing is Shaping the Pharmaceutical Industry

August 7, 2012
Sales and Marketing e-detailing, sales, sales reps

E-detailing has come at a time of great change in the pharmaceutical industry. The economic recession hit hard with pressure …

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Pfizer/Janssen Alzheimer’s drug dropped after failure

August 7, 2012
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Janssen, Pfizer, bapineuzumab

Pfizer and Janssen have decided to drop their investigational Alzheimer’s drug bapineuzumab after it failed a second late-stage study. The …

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Opposition mounting to EU’s API import regulations

August 7, 2012
Manufacturing and Production API, EU, TBT, WTO, manufacturing

Changes to the EU’s rules governing the importation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are being opposed by the governments of …

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Merck’s Singulair faces generic rivals

August 7, 2012
Sales and Marketing Merck, Singulair, generic erosion, patent

Merck has lost patent protection on its biggest selling drug Singulair, opening the floodgates for generic rivals. Merck’s drug brought …

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Whitehead to GPs: don’t squeeze the drugs budget

August 7, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, CCGs, GPs, NHS, PCTs, reform

GPs should value the drug industry and not seek to squeeze the drugs bill as their predecessors have done, says …

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Sue NHS to ensure access to drugs, says NICE chief

August 6, 2012
Lucentis, NICE, Ozurdex, judicial review, market access, ophthamology

 The chairman of NICE is advising campaigners to sue NHS bodies that block a treatment recommended by the watchdog.In a …

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Novartis and Pennsylvania team up on cancer research

August 6, 2012
Research and Development Cancer, Novartis, University of Pennsylvania, chimeric antigen receptor

Novartis and the University of Pennsylvania have joined forces to investigate a method of treating cancer which encourages patients’ immune …

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