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Health Bill ignores research, says charity

June 3, 2011
Cancer Research UK, NHS, trials

The Health and Social Care Bill has ignored the opportunity to place clinical research at the heart of the NHS, …

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BMS and Roche to team up in melanoma

June 3, 2011
Sales and Marketing BMS, Roche, melanoma, oncology

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche are to use two of their drugs in an exploratory phase I/II study a bid to …

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Tarceva impresses again as it seeks to extend its EU licence

June 3, 2011
NSCLC, Roche, Tarceva

Roche and its partner OSI Pharmaceuticals have released another series of positive results for its lung cancer drug Tarceva as …

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UNICEF highlights price differences for vaccines

June 2, 2011
Sales and Marketing Unicef, developing world, vaccines

A large disparity in the cost of vaccines has been revealed by UNICEF. The United Nations Children’s Fund charity has …

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Functional excipients driving US market growth

June 2, 2011
Manufacturing and Production API, excipients, functional excipients

Drugmakers are increasingly using more sophisticated excipients and blends in order to defend against generic competition, according to new market …

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AstraZeneca to stop paying for international conference trips

June 2, 2011
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, congresses, ethics

AstraZeneca will no longer pay for doctors to attend international conferences. The move is the latest development in the industry’s …

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Who is the customer in the new NHS?

June 2, 2011
ABPI, Ben Adams, GP consortia, NHS reform, PCTs

As the structure of the NHS is ripped down and rebuilt, the pharma industry is finding itself working in a …

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FDA goes public with enforcement actions

June 2, 2011
Manufacturing and Production FDA, transparency

The FDA is to publish more details about inspections and court actions on its website as part of a drive …

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Pfizer files new kidney cancer drug

June 2, 2011
Sales and Marketing Nexavar, Pfizer, rcc

Pfizer has filed its kidney cancer drug axitinib in the EU after impressive head-head- trials with Bayer’s Nexavar. Pfizer is …

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Anna Dixon

Reforms will weaken health service accountability

June 1, 2011
Sales and Marketing NHS reform, king's fund

The government has received yet more unwelcome news on health policy with a leading think tank warning its reforms will …

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SCM wins contract to make high-potency cancer drug

May 31, 2011
Manufacturing and Production SCM Pharma, Speciality European Pharma

UK contract manufacturing organisation SCM Pharma has been awarded a contract to make commercial supplies of a cancer drug due …

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Pharma manufacturing news in brief

May 31, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Aurobindo Pharma, Gallus, Lonza, ProMetic, Unigene

This week’s round-up of pharmaceutical manufacturing news includes new contracts for ProMetic and Unigene, plus facility updates from Aurobindo, Gallus …

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Bayer wields the axe at Emeryville plant

May 31, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Bayer, Emeryville, MS

Bayer Healthcare says it will cut 540 jobs at a production facility in Emeryville, California, next year after shifting production …

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Pharmaceutical pill manufacturing

Quality by Design – the new manufacturing paradigm

May 31, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Quality by Design, pharma manufacturing

Pharmaceutical manufacturing currently operates using processes that are widely seen as inefficient, inflexible and outdated. In the current system of …

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Pfizer

Pfizer simplifies contract research with Parexel and Icon

May 27, 2011
Research and Development ICON, Parexel, Pfizer, cros

Parexel and Icon have been chosen as Pfizer’s two long-term partners, in a move by the US pharma company to …

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Clegg calls for further delay to Health Bill

May 27, 2011
Health and Social Care Bill, NHS reforms

The government should amend its NHS reform plans and then allow them to be scrutinised further by MPs, the Deputy …

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Digital Pharma: Roche launches online warfarin training for patients

May 27, 2011
Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, Roche, anticoagulant, warfarin

Roche has launched an online training tool to help UK patients on long-term warfarin learn about anticoagulation self-monitoring. The CoaguChek …

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J&J aims for Japanese pharma expansion

May 27, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing J&J, JJ

Johnson & Johnson has identified Japan as a key growth market for its pharma business as it outlines its strategic …

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Bayer contraceptive advert breaches Code of Practice

May 27, 2011
Medical Communications ABPI Code of Practice, Bayer, Multaq, Sanofi, Yasmin

Bayer Healthcare has been singled out for “particular censure” by the PMCPA, the body which regulates the ABPI Code of …

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Chandler Chicco wins award for work on Botox migraine launch

May 27, 2011
Medical Communications Chandler Chicco, awards, medical communications

Chandler Chicco Agency has won an award for its work on the launch of Botox’s chronic migraine indication in the …

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