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Strides Arcolab facility gets the nod from FDA

May 3, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Pfizer, distribution issues

Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Strides Arcolab has been given a green light from the FDA for a facility in Bangalore that’s …

News
Cephalon

Cephalon accepts Teva’s $6.8 billion white knight bid

May 3, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cephalon, Teva, Valeant, generics

Generics giant Teva has acquired Cephalon for $6.8 billion and says the deal will make it a leading specialty pharmaceutical …

News

Teva’s Irvine facility gets FDA green light

May 3, 2011
Manufacturing and Production FDA, Teva, manufacturing compliance

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has said that an injectables facility in the USA, shut down last April after quality control problems, …

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Watermeadow Medical expands

May 3, 2011
Medical Communications appointment, medical communications

Oxfordshire, UK-based medical communications consultancy Watermeadow Medical has welcomed 11 new members of staff to its UK roster.Chief among them …

Appointment

Bosch boosts pharma processing ops with Oystar purchases

May 3, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Bosch, Hüttlin, Manesty, Oystar, pharma manufacturing

Bosch Packaging Technology is planning to expand its position in the pharmaceutical processing equipment sector with the purchase of two …

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Mitsui gets bigger in Japan with contract manufacturing buy

April 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Mitsui, contract manufacturing

Japanese company Mitsui & Co has agreed to buy MBS Co, a company set up earlier this month to house …

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Caliber opens ‘world’s largest plant production facility’

April 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Biopharmaceuticals, Caliber Biotherapeutics, G-Con LLC, biopharmaceutical manufacturing

A new facility dedicated to manufacturing biopharmaceuticals in plant cell culture – claimed to be the largest of its type …

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Advertising for MSD's Innovace

Healthcare comms is changing fast – but hold onto this principle

April 28, 2011
Medical Communications advertising, communications, digital marketing, marketing

Having spent the last forty-plus years in and around the pharma industry, it’s an understatement to say I have seen …

Feature
GlaxoSmithKline

GSK sales suffer double-digit drop

April 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing GSK, GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline saw a hefty drop in revenue in the first three months of this year as it struggled to contend …

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Pankaj Oza joins Idea Pharma

April 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing appointment, sales and marketing

Strategic consultancy Idea Pharma has appointed Pankaj Oza to its IDEAtion delivery team. He has over 20 years’ industry experience …

Appointment

Integrate: marketing and market access must come together

April 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing Drug pricing, market access, marketing

Although the words ‘market access’ have become much more commonplace in our working lives, the new clarity of its importance …

Feature

Photocure appoints new chief operating officer

April 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing appointment, sales and marketing

Kathleen Deardorff will join Norwegian specialist pharmaceutical company Photocure as chief operating officer on 1 May. She has over 25 …

Appointment

New members join PM Society Committee

April 27, 2011
Medical Communications appointment, medical communications

Carwyn Jones and Mat Phillips (pictured) have joined the Pharmaceutical Marketing Society’s main Committee. Carwyn, head of pharmaceutical sales at …

Appointment

Reforms may undermine NHS cost savings, say MPs

April 27, 2011
NHS, NHS reform, Public Accounts Comittee

Radical reforms to the NHS in England could undermine the drive to save £20 billion over the next four years. …

News

Open Health recruits new associate partner

April 27, 2011
Medical Communications appointment, medical communications

Margot Rozga has joined new med comms agency Open Health as an associate partner. The move to the Marlow, UK-based …

Appointment
Caribbean tunicate Ecteinascidia turbinata

NICE gives final no to PharmaMar’s Yondelis

April 27, 2011
Sales and Marketing NICE, PharmaMar, Yondelis, ovarian cancer

A lack of evidence and an unconvincing patient access scheme has seen PharmaMar fail to win NICE backing for its …

News

CME Spotlight: education providers and pharma need guidance

April 27, 2011
Medical Communications CME, CME Spotlight

Transplanting the testes and pituitary gland of a social outcast into a dog is the theme of a new opera …

Feature
Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer begins late-stage hep C trial

April 27, 2011
Research and Development BI 201335, Boehringer Ingelheim, hepatitis C

Boehringer Ingelheim has begun enrolling patients in North America for a phase III trial of its chronic hepatitis C virus …

News
Bayer UK Twitter Levitra

Digital Pharma: Bayer UK’s Twitter slip-up

April 26, 2011
Medical Communications ABPI Code of Practice, Bayer, Digital Pharma blog, PMCPA, Twitter, medicial communications

There seems to be some confusion at Bayer UK over what communications can be sent over Twitter. The company is …

News

Bayer defends Yasmin against BMJ studies

April 26, 2011
Sales and Marketing Bayer, Yasmin, contraception

Bayer has rallied strongly behind its top-selling contraceptive brand Yasmin after two studies in the British Medical Journal questioned the …

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