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Self-expiring label wins design award

August 30, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing label, smart packaging

A pharma label that automatically displays when a product is out of date has won a prestigious Red Dot design …

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Eylea receives new European approval

August 30, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, CRVO, Eylea, Lucentis, Novartis, wet AMD

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ThromboGenics/Novartis’ Jetrea gains NICE ‘yes’

August 30, 2013
Alcon, Jetrea, NICE, Novartis, ThromboGenics

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Pfizer joins Amazon-like R&D network

August 30, 2013
Medical Communications Assay Depot, Pfizer, amazon

Pfizer has become the latest big pharma firm to sign up to Assay Depot, the Amazon-like virtual laboratory. The US …

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Forest Labs picks 3 Monkeys Communications for psoriasis brief

August 30, 2013
Medical Communications 3 Monkeys Communications, Forest Labs

The 3 Monkeys Communications firm has been chosen to run a new psoriasis brief for Forest Laboratories. The brief is …

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Mid Staffs faces criminal case

August 30, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Mid Staffs, Monitor, NHS

The fall-out from the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust scandal has continued with the news that it is to face …

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Peter Belden becomes general manager at PCI

August 30, 2013
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Packaging Coordinators Inc (PCI) has announced the appointment of Peter Belden as the new general manager of its Rockford facilities …

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‘Mini brains’ grown in lab

August 29, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Stem cells, autism, mini brains

In a move which seems closer to science fiction than real life, scientists have grown from human skin what they …

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Chiesi snaps up Zymenex

August 29, 2013
Sales and Marketing Chiesi, lamazym, rare diseases, zymenex

Chiesi Group is to acquire biopharma company Zymenex Holdings, allowing the Italian firm to enter the rare disease arena for …

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Steve Field becomes first GP chief inspector

August 29, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CQC, GP, steve field

Health services watchdog the Care Quality Commission has appointed Professor Steve Field as its first chief inspector of general practice. …

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Oxford BioMedica gains $1 million Pfizer pay-out

August 29, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Oxford BioMedica, Pfizer, TroVax

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Afinitor too costly for NICE despite price cut

August 29, 2013
Sales and Marketing Afinitor, HER2 negative, NICE, Novartis, breast cancer

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Siegfried buoyant as controlled substances lift 1H sales

August 28, 2013
Manufacturing and Production 1h, AMP, Siegfried

Pharmaceutical raw materials manufacturer Siegfried posted a 10% increase in sales to 197 million Swiss francs in the first half …

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Lonza wields axe at US facility

August 28, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Lonza, cuts

Swiss contract manufacturer Lonza has said it will start cutting staffing levels at its US facility in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, next …

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Regulators produce QbD report

August 28, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing EMA, FDA, QbD

European and US regulators have published the first fruits of their collaboration on assessing measures to ensure drugs are manufactured …

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‘Inequality’ for Welsh cancer patients

August 28, 2013
Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, England, NHS, NICE, Wales

Cancer sufferers in England are four times more likely to receive newer treatments on the NHS than patients in Wales, …

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Shire and Santaris extend rare disease alliance

August 28, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Locked Nucleic Acid, Santaris, Shire, rare disease

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Nexavar gains FDA ‘speed lane’ status for thyroid cancer

August 28, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amgen, Nexavar, Onyx

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PPD appoints David Johnston as executive vice president

August 28, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing PPD, david johnston

Contract research organisation PPD has appointed Dr David Johnston as executive vice president of global laboratory services. Johnston will direct …

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FDA warns Fresenius Kabi over plant problems

August 27, 2013
Manufacturing and Production FDA, Fresenius, kabi, recall

German drugmaker Fresenius has been sent another warning letter by the US Food and Drug Administration, this time for a …

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