Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week

June 2, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing top ten

It’s Friday again, and the past week was populated with a host of riveting news and features from the life …

NICE U-turns to recommend Sanofi Gaucher disease drug

June 2, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Gaucher disease, NICE, Sanofi

It has been revealed that NICE has reached the decision to recommend Sanofi’s Cerdelga (eligustat) for use on the NHS …

Childhood mortality from diarrhoea falls by third

June 2, 2017
Medical Communications Diarhhoea, India, Nigeria

A study has found that the rates of children dying from diarrhoea worldwide fell by a third through the decade …

Clinical Trial Success: How Relationships Are Key

June 2, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing contract research organisations, cros

Jeffrey Zucker, Vice President of Feasibility and Recruitment Optimisation at Worldwide Clinical Trials, offers strategies for establishing and maintaining key …

Silence Therapeutics instate new COO

June 1, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Roche, Silence Therapeutics

Silence Therapeutics, a company focused on developing medicines through the body’s natural mechanism of RNA interference, has appointed a new …

Europe vs USA: New drug approvals

June 1, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NDA, regulatory affairs

Dr Terese Johansson, Regulatory Affairs Consultant NDA Group AB, examines the drop in US approvals while observing no similar trend …

New method discovered to target chronic pain

June 1, 2017
Research and Development opioid, painkillers

Chronic pain is notoriously difficult to treat and can lead some people to take painkillers of increasing strength to combat …

Mylan overcharged for EpiPen by $1.7 billion, new report says

June 1, 2017
Sales and Marketing Mylan, epipen

More bad news for Mylan as a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the …

New biosimilar guidelines launched in the EU

June 1, 2017
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, biosimilars

A joint effort by the EMA and the European Commission has seen the publication of a biosimilar information guide for …

Ohio takes legal action against pharma companies for opioid crisis

June 1, 2017
Medical Communications Ohio, opioid, opioid crisis

If there is one state that needs answers for its citizens’ struggles with opioids, it is Ohio. The state saw …

Navigating the challenges of health technology assessment

May 31, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GPI, Global Pricing Innovations

In the face of restricted budgets, payers worldwide are increasingly using Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) as a way of managing …

NLS Pharma reveals data on different kind of ADHD treatment

May 31, 2017
Research and Development NLS Pharma, mazindol

Most treatments for ADHD are stimulants, while the two most common treatments Adderall and Ritalin contain amphetamines. Due to the …

Collegium bring in former Biogen SVP as new COO

May 31, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Biogen, Collegium pharmaceutical

Collegium Pharmaceutical has announced the appointment of Joseph Ciaffoni to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. …

Could robots solve the pharma talent crisis?

May 31, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, UK, brexit, pharma, talent crisis

Unpredictability in the industry and beyond is rife, but talent acquisition remains a key issue for Pharma and Life Sciences. …

FDA approves first generic versions of Lilly’s ADHD drug

May 31, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ADHD, Apotex, Aurobindo, FDA, Glenmark, Teva

The FDA has given its approval for the commercialisation of the first-ever generic versions of Eli Lilly’s Strattera (atomoxetine) for …

Evidence of tampering with Valium medication in Australia

May 31, 2017
Medical Communications, Research and Development Roche, valium

Roche, the supplier of Valium in Australia, had notified the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) that it had discovered evidence of …

Mounting US pricing pressures cutting into quarterly sales, Novartis admits

May 31, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Novartis, Sandoz

Novartis has revealed that increasing pressure on pricing in the US has impacted its second-quarter business, cutting into sales generated …

MSD allays Irish fears with €280m expansion investment

May 31, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Ireland, MSD

There were fears in Ireland that President Trump’s strong words to bring manufacturing back to the US would hurt the …

Modified antibiotic shows big promise against drug-resistant bacteria

May 30, 2017
Research and Development antibiotic resistance, vancomycin

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have succeeded in reengineering vancomycin – a widely-used antibiotic – in order to …

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