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Sanofi’s blockbusters take a hit

July 29, 2010
Sales and Marketing 2010 financials, Genzyme, Q2, Sanofi-Aventis

Generic pressures, European pricing pressures and the impact of the US health reforms combined to dent Sanofi-Aventis’s growth in the …

News

Contract research news in brief

July 29, 2010
Research and Development CRO, LAB Research, Microsoft, PPD, PharmaNet, QPS, Selvita

Icon reports that new business wins rose healthily in the second quarter, plus there’s an alliance between PPD and Microsoft …

News

RSA expands European teams

July 29, 2010
Business Services appointment, business services, rsa

Life sciences executive search and interim management firm RSA has made series of new appointments to some of the European …

Appointment

Robert Thomson joins Photosound

July 29, 2010
Medical Communications Photosound, appointment, medical communications

UK brand communcations agency Photosound has appointed Robert Thomson as head of digital product development. He has over 15 years’ …

Appointment

Cardio3 BioSciences appoints Dr Atta Behfar

July 29, 2010
Research and Development Cardio3, appointment, research and development

Belgium biotech company Cardio3 BioSciences has appointed Dr Atta Behfar as director for advanced research. He will spend a year …

Appointment

UK lags behind Europe on innovative cancer drugs

July 29, 2010
Sales and Marketing Cancer, market access

The UK has been ranked as one of the worst countries when it comes to uptake of new cancer drug …

News

Merck KGaA’s oral MS therapy gains US priority review

July 29, 2010
Sales and Marketing Cladribine, MS, Merck KGaA

Merck’s cladribine has been granted a priority review status by the FDA in a move that could see it come …

News

Big Pharma R&D – thinking big, acting small

July 28, 2010
Research and Development Kinapse

 

Feature
White paper

Chiltern Announces its Financial Results for the Year Ended 31 March 2010

July 28, 2010
Research and Development

Highlights• Revenues of £80.9 million, 9.8% ahead of the year ended March 2009. Of this, 1.5% is due to acquisitions, …

News
Press release
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Digital Pharma: UK health clinic first for Pfizer

July 28, 2010
Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, Pfizer, digital patients, digital pharma med coms, disease awareness campaigns, sexual health

Men in the UK can now go online for confidential advice and information about any health problem through a unique …

News
Spoon

Non-human sugars could compromise biologic drugs

July 28, 2010
Manufacturing and Production biologicals, biologics, manufacturing

Many of the biologic drugs on the market today contain sugar molecule components that in some patients could undermine their …

News
Iressa

NICE approves trio of cancer drugs

July 28, 2010
Sales and Marketing Iressa, MabThera, NICE, Xeloda

NICE has given its final recommendation to a trio of drugs for the treatment of various cancers, which means the …

News

Lansley to create £50 million cancer drugs fund

July 28, 2010
Sales and Marketing Cancer, NHS, government, market access

The UK government is setting up a multi-million pound fund dedicated to improving patient access to innovative new cancer drugs. …

News

Sir Paul Nurse to head up UKCMRI

July 28, 2010
Research and Development UKCMRI, apppointment, research and development

The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation has appointed Sir Paul Nurse as its first director and chief executive. …

Appointment

Not so new technologies

July 28, 2010
Research and Development EDC, Les Rose, digital research

Let me take you back to a time that is now only dimly remembered. I don’t mean a time when …

Feature
Genzyme

Genzyme ponders Sanofi offer

July 27, 2010
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Genzyme, Sanofi-Aventis

Sanofi-Aventis is understood to have approached the board of Genzyme with a takeover bid for the company. News agency Reuters …

News

NICE gets expanded role in quango cull

July 27, 2010
MHRA, NHS, NICE, government

The bonfire of the quangos has begun in earnest in the health sector, with 18 so-called “arm’s length bodies” cut …

News

Bill would give FDA mandatory recall powers

July 27, 2010
Manufacturing and Production FDA, manufacturing compliance, recalls

The chairman of the US congressional committee investigating the quality control problems at Johnson & Johnson, Edolphus Towns, has introduced …

News

Sales of bioreactors in Asia boost Sartorius

July 27, 2010
Manufacturing and Production Sartorius, manufacturing and production, manufacturing equipment

Processing equipment company Sartorius posted a healthy 6% increase in sales in the first half of 2010 to 315 million …

News

New measures to help patients with mystery cancers

July 27, 2010
CUP, Cancer, NHS, NICE

Patients whose cancer has spread to other parts of the body from an unknown primary location are to be given …

News
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