Care Quality Commission targets website which gave prescriptions in 17 seconds
April 6, 2017Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Care Quality Commission, prescription
The Care Quality Commission (CQC), England’s health and social care service regulator, has identified four online prescription medicine vendors engaging …
Ketamine found to offer hope as last-resort treatment for depression
April 6, 2017Research and Development Ketamine, University of Oxford
Researchers from the University of Oxford have conducted a six-year study looking into the potential therapeutic effects of ketamine as …
House of Lords slams “short-termism” of NHS in new report
April 6, 2017Medical Communications House of Lords, NHS
A new report from the House of Lords has slammed current and past “short-sighted” governments for failing to provide a …
Pfizer resolves pension dispute at Irish facility
April 5, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Ireland, Pfizer, Siptu
Pfizer and trade union Siptu have reached an agreement over a pension dispute at the company’s plant at Ringaskiddy in …
Supercomputer discovers how cell membrane shape causes cancer
April 5, 2017Research and Development Cancer, K-Ras
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have harnessed the power of a supercomputer to analyse one particular …
Researchers identify key protein in cancer drug resistance
April 5, 2017Research and Development Cancer, university of salford
A University of Salford research team has identified a gene which they believe is one of the leading causes of …
GSK hit by recall of 600,000 inhalers
April 5, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development FDA, GSK, Ventolin
The FDA has released that GSK would be voluntarily recalling close to 600,000 of its Ventolin asthma inhalers across the …
Joanne Estell joins Shield Therapeutics as CFO
April 5, 2017Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing
Shield Therapeutics has announced that it has recruited Joanne Estell as its new CFO and board member; she will step …
Common antibiotic shows promise as novel PTSD treatment
April 5, 2017Research and Development PTSD, UCL, antibiotic, doxycycline
Research coming out of University College London (UCL) and the University of Zurich has indicated that common antibiotic doxycycline could …
NICE turns down Shire’s pancreatic cancer treatment
April 4, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing NICE, Pancreatic cancer, Shire
NICE has announced its intention not to recommend the NHS use of Shire’s Onivyde (pegylated liposomal irinotecan) for the treatment …
Mylan hit with fresh lawsuit over EpiPen pricing
April 4, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Mylan, epipen, pricing
Just as it faces worldwide reports that over 80,000 of its EpiPens do not function properly and as the FDA …
Teva’s Huntington’s treatment becomes first FDA-approved deuterated drug
April 4, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Austedo, FDA, Teva
Israel’s Teva Pharmaceuticals has announced that the FDA has given its approval for Austedo (deutetrabenazine) in the treatment of chorea …
Sanofi to pay $20m fine for overcharging US veterans
April 4, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, Sanofi Pasteur, US
Sanofi Pasteur, the French firm’s vaccines unit, has agreed to pay a $19.8 million settlement over claims it overcharged the …
Novartis combo expands into lung cancer with EU approval
April 4, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing NSCLC, Novartis, Tafinlar, mekinist
Novartis has announced that its Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) drug combo has been approved by the European Commission (EC) …
Vencerx Therapeutics ring the changes appointing ex-Pfizer Director as CEO
April 3, 2017Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Vencerx therapeutics
Vencerx Therapeutics, a biotech focused on developing treatments for neurodevelopmental disorders, has announced the appointment of Robert Ring as CEO. …
Behind Rare Disease Day 2017
April 3, 2017Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Rare Disease Day, rare disease
Rare Disease Day falls on the last day of February, meaning every four years it occurs on a leap year, …
Finger-prick blood test could help with depression medication
April 3, 2017Research and Development, Sales and Marketing
Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that simple finger-prick blood test could reveal the most …
Immune system influences immunotherapy effectiveness, research shows
April 3, 2017Research and Development, Sales and Marketing immunotherapy, nivolumab, opdivo
Preliminary research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) has discovered a link between levels of certain immune …
Pfizer secures expanded approval for Ibrance
April 3, 2017Sales and Marketing Pfizer, ibrance
Pfizer has announced that FDA has approved its supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Ibrance, meaning that the drug is …
FDA issues US-wide recall of Mylan’s EpiPen
April 3, 2017Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing FDA, Mylan, epipen
After recent reports of around 80,000 defective EpiPen’s across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Ireland, the FDA …
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