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AstraZeneca backs online NHS passport tool

April 30, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, NIHR, app, medication passport

AstraZeneca has provided support to an NHS partner launching an online tool to help patients keep track of their health …

‘Solid’ start for Novartis

April 30, 2013
Sales and Marketing Novartis, Q1, sales

Novartis’ sales of pharma products were unchanged in the first quarter of 2013 at $7.9 billion, with pricing flat, the …

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Evolution Marketing Research hires senior director

April 30, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Evolution marketing research, david hooper

Healthcare marketing agency Evolution Marketing Research has appointed David Hooper to the firm as senior director, Research. Hooper brings more …

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Sales rise for AbbVie

April 30, 2013
Sales and Marketing AbbVie, Abbott

AbbVie has released its first financial results as a standalone company since separating from Abbott as an $18 billion biopharma …

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DH acts on private data

April 29, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, data

The government has promised that patients will not be forced into having their personal health records shared by doctors and …

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GSK submits UMEC monotherapy

April 29, 2013
Sales and Marketing COPD, EMA, GSK, UMEC

GlaxoSmithKline has put its investigational once-daily medicine umeclidinium bromide (UMEC) up for scrutiny by European regulators for patients with chronic …

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CTCA changes leadership

April 29, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CTCA

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) network has made a change in its executive leadership with the appointment of  …

EMA launches ‘black triangle’ post-marketing scheme

April 28, 2013
Sales and Marketing EMA, Post-marketing surveillance, black triangle, pharmacovigilance

The European Medicines Agency has unveiled its new ‘black triangle’ post-marketing surveillance system, and the list of drugs that will …

Pfizer’s Xeljanz rejected in Europe

April 28, 2013
Sales and Marketing CHMP, Humira, Pfizer, RA, Xeljanz, rheumatoid arthritis

Pfizer has suffered a major setback with the rejection of its new arthritis drug in Europe.The EMA’s medicines committee the …

Prostate cancer drug Xtandi gets nod

April 26, 2013
Sales and Marketing Xtandi, Zytiga, prostate cancer

Astellas and Medivation have received a positive opinion from Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for Xtandi, …

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Zyprexa decline hits Lilly

April 26, 2013
Sales and Marketing Q1, lilly, zyprexa

Loss of exclusivity on Lilly’s blockbuster antipsychotic Zyprexa in 2011 continued to hit the company hard in the first quarter …

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Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst hires marketing manager

April 26, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst

Open innovation bioscience campus Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, has announced the appointment of Miranda Knaggs as Marketing, Sales & Events manager. …

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Melanoma breakthrough for Merck

April 26, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing FDA, Merck, lambrolizumab, melanoma

Merck’s pipeline has been given a boost by an FDA decision to designate early-stage investigational drug lambrolizumab as a breakthrough …

Pharma R&D ‘untenable’

April 25, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GlobalData, R&D

The current model by which pharma carries out R&D is ‘untenable’, according to a new report. But the research, from …

Boehringer’s online PMCPA breach

April 25, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, AF, Boehringer, PMCPA

Boehringer Ingelheim has failed to uphold high standards, according to the PMCPA, which enforces the ABPI Code of Practice, over …

Navigating Cancer hires VP from InVentiv Health

April 25, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing inVentic Health, navigating cancer

Cancer support service company Navigating Cancer has appointed Suzanne Greenwood to the firm as vice president, Bio-Pharmaceutical Services. Greenwood has …

US doctors support self-monitoring patients

April 24, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Manhattan research, doctors, taking the pulse

A new survey of US doctors has found that most have patients who are measuring their health data themselves, and …

£50m oncology fund pays out

April 24, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, ICR, MPS1

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London has become the first recipient of money from a £50 million fund …

Roche restructures life science business

April 24, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Europe, Roche, US, cuts

Roche is to cut around 170 jobs in Europe and the US as part of a restructure of its life …

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The competitor room comes of age

April 24, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MSI, competitor room

It was great to be back at SonoPharm, it was so still at this time of day and she went …

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