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New UK head at Porter Novelli

May 8, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Porter Novelli, smiddy

PR firm Porter Novelli has announced that Mary Smiddy has been named as its new UK head of health & …

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Asian regulators take issue with J&J facilities

May 7, 2013
Manufacturing and Production India, J&J, JJ, Korea, inspection

Johnson & Johnson’s manufacturing network is under yet more scrutiny following regulatory actions by authorities in India and South Korea. …

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Funding boost for GSK open lab

May 7, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Wellcome

GlaxoSmithKline has been given an extra £5 million by the Wellcome Trust to help support its work in Spain on …

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Lessons from the business gurus

May 7, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MSI, buffet, business gurus

Marketing books are full of pithy quotes from business gurus, quotes which are often repeated until they almost become mantras. …

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FleishmanHillard appoints two directors

May 7, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing FleishmanHillard

Comms firm FleishmanHillard has added two directors to its Healthcare leadership team. Robert Hanvik and Alison Wright have joined the …

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FDA approves Liptruzet

May 7, 2013
Sales and Marketing FDA, Merck, liptruzet

Merck is celebrating after its once-daily anti-cholesterol pill Liptruzet was approved by US regulators, expanding its indications. The drug – …

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Teva says US facility will close in cost-cutting drive

May 3, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Teva, closure, cuts

Teva has said it will shut down a manufacturing and R&D facility in Pennsylvania by 2017, with the loss of …

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Sanofi’s performance dives

May 3, 2013
Sales and Marketing Q1, Sanofi

Sanofi suffered a grim first three months of 2013, with sales dipping and profit plummeting as loss of exclusivity took …

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Sanofi appoints two executive members

May 3, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, executive

Sanofi has announced a new commercial organisation which results in the appointment of two executives. Following the retirement of Hanspeter …

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Lundbeck moves ahead in Q1

May 3, 2013
Sales and Marketing Lexapro, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Q1

Lundbeck’s sales and profit increase in the first three months of 2013 was due largely to one-off payments it received, …

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FDA seeks manufacturing data for GSK’s trametinib

May 2, 2013
Manufacturing and Production FDA, GSK, melanoma

GlaxoSmithKline’s melanoma drug candidate trametinib has been delayed in the US by an FDA request for more information on its …

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Boehringer and OBT in cancer tie-up

May 2, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Cancer, OBT

Boehringer Ingelheim and UK biotech firm Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT) have signed a deal to discover novel antibody targets in cancer. …

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Court rules against EMA disclosure

May 2, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, EMA, Roche, transparency

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been ordered in an interim ruling by the General Court of the European Union …

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Not-for-profit comms agency adds special advisor

May 1, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Comprehensive communications

A new not-for-profit marketing and comms consultancy that specialises in healthcare and research has added Professor Martin Gibson to its …

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GSK abandons Parkinson’s drug

May 1, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, IPX066, Parkinson's

GlaxoSmithKline has terminated its three-year old agreement with Impax Pharmaceuticals to develop investigational Parkinson’s disease drug IPX066. “The decision has …

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Manufacturing issues block Gilead approvals

May 1, 2013
Manufacturing and Production FDA, Gilead

The FDA has blocked approval of two of Gilead Sciences’ HIV drugs because of deficiencies in their marketing applications related …

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Life appoints new executive

May 1, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Anderson, Life

Creative comms agency Life Healthcare Communications has appointed a new account executive as part of the expansion of its client …

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Charity: MS treatment is ‘lottery’

May 1, 2013
Sales and Marketing MS, lottery, society

Multiple sclerosis care in the UK is a ‘lottery’ according to research by the MS Society. The charity says that …

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Pfizer sales shrink 9 per cent

April 30, 2013
Sales and Marketing Ian Read, Lipitor, Pfizer

Pfizer endured another painful cut to its revenues in the first quarter of 2013, with sales down $1.4 billion, or …

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Pfizer and Merck create major diabetes alliance

April 30, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Merck, Pfizer, diabetes

Pfizer and Merck have unveiled a major new alliance in diabetes which is likely to raise the stakes in the …

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