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ABPI appoints nightclub owner as new NHS manager

December 12, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, nightclub, tugnet

The ABPI has appointed Raj Tugnet as its new NHS partnership manager to lead ABPI activities on academic health science …

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Novo Nordisk faces police probe

December 11, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing FDA, Novo Nordisk, police

Novo Nordisk is facing an investigation from Denmark’s police over delaying the release of negative information it received from the …

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UK government doubles dementia funding

December 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Cameron, Merck, Obama, dementia

UK prime minister David Cameron has announced that the government is to increase funding research into dementia, spending £52 million …

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Twitter ‘drama’ produces drubbing for Medivir

December 11, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Medivir, Twitter, digital, nasdaq

A NASDAQ disciplinary committee has found Medivir guilty of breaching its rules after data from a trial was posted on …

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AbbVie posts strong results for Hep C pill

December 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 3D, AbbVie, FDA, Gilead, hep C

AbbVie’s investigational hepatitis C pill cured 96% of difficult-to-treat patients in a late-stage clinical trial and looks set to muscle …

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Mike Nally replaces Deepak Khanna as MSD head

December 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Deepak Khanna, MSD, mike nally

Merck Sharp & Dohme has confirmed that Mike Nally will succeed Deepak Khanna as managing director for MSD in the …

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PIP founder jailed for fraud

December 11, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing breast, implants, pip, silicone

The boss of a French firm at the centre of a global health scare over faulty breast implants has been …

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Auto Injector Innovation: Quality and Compliance

December 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production auto injector, auto injector innovation, shl autoinjector

SHL recognizes the importance of this topic and discusses it in more details in an article titled “Auto Injector Innovation” …

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Publicis acquires health analytics firm Verilogue

December 10, 2013
Medical Communications Publicis Groupe, Veriogue, agency, comms

Publicis Groupe has acquired Verilogue, a healthcare analytics firm that specialises in doctor-patient communication. The US, Pennsylvania-based agency will now …

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Cancer diagnosis is ‘national disgrace’

December 10, 2013
Sales and Marketing CCGs, Cancer, NHS, appgc

Cancer care is still dangerously dependent on where patients in England live according to an influential group of MPs and …

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Wii Fit Plus benefits patients with diabetes

December 10, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing bmc, diabetes, games, type 2, wii fit plus

A study says using interactive games through Nintendo’s Wii console helped type 2 diabetics to control their disease and improve …

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J&J chooses UK as a new hub to ‘listen’ for innovation

December 10, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing J&J, JJ, UK, innovation, research

Johnson & Johnson has chosen the UK as its formal European hub after announcing the creation of five new sites …

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Nuevolution hires Takeda head as chief business officer

December 10, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Takeda, neuvolution

Small molecule lead discovery firm Nuevolution has poached Ton Berkien from Takeda to join the firm as a chief business …

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Cancer Research: ‘Advert helped early diagnosis’

December 10, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, be clear, cough, government

A TV campaign urging people with a persistent cough to visit their doctor has led to hundreds of people receiving …

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FDA seeks top-to-toe review of Wockhardt manufacturing

December 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production AZ, GMP, Taylor, Wockhardt. fda

Wockhardt has been asked to undertake an assessment of its entire manufacturing processes, according to an FDA warning letter. Sent …

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Pfizer cuts manufacturing again with plant closure

December 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Ireland, Merck, Pfizer, Taylor, facility

A packaging plant in Ireland is the latest to come into the cross-hairs of the people at Pfizer tasked with …

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CLL drug achieves ‘unprecedented’ remissions

December 9, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, CML, Genentech, abt-199

AbbVie and Genentech’s investigational oncology drug ABT-199 has performed well in a Phase I trial for blood cancer, according to …

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Gilead’s $1,000 per day Hep C drug approved

December 9, 2013
Sales and Marketing FDA, Gilead, hepc, sofosbuvir, sovaldi

Gilead’s Sovaldi has gained FDA approval as a potential cure for hepatitis C after the US regulator sped up its …

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API imports in the EU: gauging the FMD’s impact

December 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing API, EMA, FMD, Taylor, manufacturing, supply chain

The deaths of dozens of patients as a result of the contaminated heparin incident in 2008 casts a long shadow …

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Savara Pharmaceuticals appoints two board members

December 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Joseph McCracken, Pikover, savara

Speciality pharma firm Savara Pharmaceuticals has appointed Dr Joseph McCracken and Yuri Pikover to its board of directors. McCracken has …

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