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The growing role of regulatory affairs

June 30, 2011
Business Services, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing regulatory affairs, topra

Some years ago, regulatory affairs (RA) was seen by some as merely a ‘front office’ function, providing a necessary interface …

Feature

Grindeks opens API plant in Latvia

June 30, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Grindeks, pharma manufacturing news

Latvian pharmaceutical company Grindeks has opened a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing plant that it predicts will add around …

News
Roche's Tarceva (erlotinib)

Tarceva fails to win NICE backing

June 30, 2011
Sales and Marketing NICE, Tarceva

NICE has decided not to recommend Roche’s Tarceva because of uncertainty over how long the lung cancer drug can extend …

News
GlaxoSmithKline

GSK welcomes outside researchers to its ‘open lab’

June 29, 2011
Research and Development GSK, TB, academic alliance, malaria, open lab

The first scientists from outside GlaxoSmithKline have started work at the manufacturer’s ‘open lab’ for diseases of the developing world …

News

Janssen to collaborate with Jubilant on neuroscience targets

June 29, 2011
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Janssen, Jubilant, neuroscience research

Janssen is to team up with Indian pharma services company Jubilant Life Sciences on neuroscience drug discovery. Jubilant Discovery Services …

News

New medicine approvals slumped to record low in 2010

June 29, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing drug sales, new drug approvals, research

There was a major slide in medicine approvals last year, compounding a difficult and ominous period for the industry. Only …

News

Introducing SHL Pharma: A Greener Approach

June 29, 2011
Manufacturing and Production auto injector, autoinjector, automation, final assembly, final packaging

SHL Group is proud to introduce SHL Pharma, a facility built with a greener approach providing final assembly, labeling and …

News
Press release

Treatment flexibility will improve adherence in diabetes, study suggests

June 29, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing diabetes, insulin

A third of patients with diabetes admit to regularly missing or not taking insulin treatment three days a month, according …

News

Greek debt hits pharma deliveries

June 29, 2011
Sales and Marketing Greece

The debt crisis afflicting Greece is starting to affect the country’s hospitals as pharma companies refuse to deliver drugs. Roche …

News
Novartis

Regulators back Novartis’ Votubia

June 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing Novartis, Votubia, everolimus

Novartis’ drug Votubia has been recommended by regulators to treat a disease for which the only current option in Europe …

News

BMA warns of ‘slash and burn’ health service cuts

June 28, 2011
BMA, NHS reforms

The BMA has hit out against reckless cuts to health service budgets and a ‘phoney war’ on NHS pensions. In …

News

Shire gets green light for second Replagal facility

June 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Replagal, Shire, Vpriv, pharma manufacturing news

The European Medicines Agency has approved a second manufacturing facility in the USA for Shire’s Fabry disease treatment Replagal. Shire’s …

News

GlaxoSmithKline fined $41m for manufacturing failings

June 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Production GSK, pharma manufacturing news

GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay almost $41 million to dozens of US states in a lawsuit focusing on alleged substandard …

News

Pharma manufacturing news in brief

June 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Production pharma manufacturing news

Abbott delays closure of Canadian facility, West Pharma starts a new build in China, plus updates from Vetter, Pharmadule and …

News

Sanofi appoints Peter Guenter senior VP, Europe

June 28, 2011
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing appointment, manufacturing and production, research and development, sales and marketing

Sanofi has promoted Peter Guenter to senior vice president, Europe, with effect from 15 July. He is currently general manager …

Appointment

Service Insight: Submission development and market access

June 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing Service Insight

SERVICE INSIGHT A successful health technology assessment is critical for market access in the UK. However, submissions that don’t follow …

Feature

Pfizer sells Irish manufacturing facility to BioMarin

June 27, 2011
Manufacturing and Production BioMarin, Ireland, Pfizer, pharma manufacturing news

Pfizer is selling its Irish manufacturing facility in Shanbally, Cork, to US biopharmaceutical company BioMarin for $48.5 million, creating up …

News

Activaero appoints Christian Pangratz

June 27, 2011
Sales and Marketing appointment, sales and marketing

Activaero GmbH has appointed Christian Pangratz as chief business officer, with a brief to lead its business development, marketing and …

Appointment
Boehringer Ingelheim Eli Lilly Trajenta linagliptin

CHMP backs Boehringer-Lilly diabetes drug Trajenta

June 27, 2011
Sales and Marketing Tradjenta, Trajenta, diabetes

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly’s new type II diabetes drug Trajenta has been recommended for European approval. It was given …

News

Bury the NHS reform bill, says BMJ

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

The influential British Medical Journal has called on the government to abandon its healthcare reform bill, which it says has …

News
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