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Investigational drug found to boost treatment efficacy in paediatric brain cancer

July 12, 2017
Research and Development AT/RT, Cancer, DIPG, TAK228, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Researchers from the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, have revealed in a report …

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Plot twist as FDA U-turns on Amicus drug decision

July 11, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amicus Therapeutics, FDA, Galafold

The news continues to flow out of the FDA, as it grabs another headline by backtracking on its previous decision …

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Sanofi snatches up Protein Sciences for $750 million

July 11, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, acquisition, protein sciences

French drug maker Sanofi has announced that it has agreed to acquire vaccine biotech company Protein Sciences for a potential …

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Hope in quest for gonorrhoea vaccination

July 11, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development WHO, gonorrhoea, meningitis, vaccination

Only last week, the WHO expressed serious concerns about the possibility of strains of gonorrhoea developing that could be resistant …

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Ipsen secures NICE approval for multi-targeting kidney cancer therapy

July 11, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Cabometyx, Kidney cancer, NICE

Ipsen has announced that its therapy Cabometyx (cabozantinib) has been given approval by NICE for the treatment of advanced renal …

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ABPI launches legal action to overturn £20m price cap

July 11, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS England, NICE

When NICE announced in March that it would impose a £20 million per year cap on the price of drugs, …

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Brain tumours to be used to manufacture stem cells

July 10, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Censo Biotechnologies, University of Leeds

Censo Biotechnologies has announced that it will collaborate with the University of Leeds to use the latest stem cell technology …

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New director of CDC courts controversy from all angles

July 10, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDC, Trump, US

It seems that an appointment in Trump’s administration cannot avoid being a topic of some controversy. That’s the case with …

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Revealing the missing evidence: Randomised real-life studies in basal insulin therapy

July 10, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, diabetes, real world data

Sanofi’s Riccardo Perfetti, Head of Global Diabetes, and Jukka Westerbacka, Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs, discuss how the significance of …

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Endo withdraws product as FDA secures step in opioid crisis fightback

July 10, 2017
Sales and Marketing Endo pharmaceuticals, FDA, Opana ER

The FDA took the unusual step to ask Endo Pharmaceutical to voluntarily withdraw its opioid painkiller, Opana ER, from the …

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Problematic facility inspection puts Biocon’s biosimilar EU approvals on hold

July 10, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Biocon, India, biosimilars

Indian firm Biocon has been hit by regulator criticism which has forced its European biosimilar programme on hold following a …

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Shire and Roche haemophilia spat spills into court

July 10, 2017
Sales and Marketing Roche, Shire, haemophilia

Roche released new scientific data at a conference in Berlin regarding its developmental drug in haemophilia, emicizumab, and Shire chose …

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European pharma pulls together to ensure ‘minimal disruption’ from Brexit

July 10, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, Europe, UK

As a consequence of the triggering of Article 50 and the UK’s exit from the EU, the EMA – currently …

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FDA gives go-ahead to first sickle cell treatment in 20 years

July 10, 2017
Sales and Marketing Emmaus Medical, L-glutamine, sickle cell disease

Emmaus Medical has been handed approval for the first new treatment for sickle cell disease in two decades. The active …

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AstraZeneca appoint new MD for India

July 7, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, India

AstraZeneca announced a new Managing Director for AstraZeneca Pharma India, with Gagan Singh Bedi beginning the role on 3 July. …

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Oral sex creating super-gonorrhoea

July 7, 2017
Research and Development antibiotic resistance, gonorrhoea

The WHO has announced that data from across 77 different countries show that the sexually-transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhoea is becoming …

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Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week

July 7, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing most read articles, most read news, top ten

It’s Friday, and we’ve brought together our weekly digest of the articles which proved most popular with our readers. Brexit …

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Celgene plays catch up with $1.4 billion immunotherapy deal

July 7, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing BeiGene, Celgene, immunotherapy, pd-1

Those commentating on Celgene’s latest deal seem to be equally divided between two camps: it is too much money, too …

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Top 50 Selling Products in the World by 2022

July 6, 2017
Medical Communications

This article was originally published in Pharmafile Spring 2017.Opdivo and Revlimid to compete for the top spot in 2022, while …

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New data shows pharma has not cut back on controversial payments to physicians

July 6, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Allergan, Biogen, Celgene, Sanofi, Valeant

Despite increasing controversy arising over the years due to the questionable relationship between physicians and pharma and the money which …

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