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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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BMS and Array BioPharma partner up to tackle colorectal cancer

May 30, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Array Biopharma, BMS, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Array BioPharma have announced they are to join forces as part of a new clinical research partnership …

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Glenmark greenlighted to market hypertension generic in US

May 30, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FDA, Glenmark, generic, hypertension

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has revealed it has been awarded final approval by the FDA to market hypertension treatment nebivolol, a generic …

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Beta blockers offer little to no benefit for heart attack patients, study suggests

May 30, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development beta-blockers, heart attack

New research from the University of Leeds has called into question the prevalent practice of prescribing beta blockers for heart …

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FDA approves Novartis’ Zykadia as first-line lung cancer treatment

May 30, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FDA, NSCLC, Novartis

The FDA has announced it has approved Novartis’ Zykadia (ceritinib) as a first line treatment in the expanded indication of …

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Gene-editing tool CRISPR found to cause unintentional mutations in live animal models

May 30, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development crispr

Gene-editing has been heralded as a wonder tool which could lead to huge advances in a wide range of treatment …

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Global Pricing Innovations and Pricing360 announce new strategic partnership

May 30, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

London, May 30, 2017 – Global Pricing Innovations (GPI), the pricing and intelligence experts for the life sciences industry and …

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WHO elects first African Director General

May 26, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing WHO, appointment

Ethiopian-born Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been announced as the Next Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) after securing …

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Superbugs in the supply chain

May 26, 2017
Medical Communications Antibiotics, Changing Markets, China, IMAGE: Changing Markets, Superbugs

Bad Manufacturing Practices: Changing Markets examines China’s role in the antibiotics supply chain and the damaging pollution that results from …

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New FDA Commissioner reveals strategy to drive down drug prices

May 26, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FDA, Scott Gottlieb, Trump, pricing

Deregulation, faster access and cheaper drug prices very quickly became the rallying cry for the Trump administration in the life …

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Furore over DNA testing company’s licensing of consumers’ data

May 26, 2017
Medical Communications 23andME, Ancestry, DNA, DNA testing, genetic information

A company that assesses DNA is dealing with the repercussions of public outcry after a data protection lawyer highlighted a …

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Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week

May 26, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing top ten

Among other things, it’s been a week characterised by safety failures as three of our most popular stories centred on …

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Puma Biotech’s breast cancer drug gets FDA committee nod

May 25, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Puma Biotech, breast cancer, neratinib

Puma Biotechnology breast cancer drug that could be used to reduce the risk of disease recurrence has been boosted by …

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Pharmaceutical companies and patient advocacy groups: Natural allies in the support of patients

May 25, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Takeda, Takeda oncology, patient advocacy

As published in the special Market Access section of the latest issue of Pharmafocus, Liz Lewis, Chief Counsel & Compliance …

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Neurocrine’s Ingrezza flops in Tourette’s for second time

May 25, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Neurocrine Biosciences, tourette's

Neurocrine’s Tourette’s therapy Ingrezza (valbenazine) has been hit with yet another setback, flopping in a Phase 2 trial of paediatric …

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Cannabidiol drug found to aid in devastating childhood epilepsy condition

May 25, 2017
Research and Development GW Pharmaceuticals, cannabidoil, epilepsy

A treatment derived from cannabis has been found to produce remarkable results in children who have epilepsy. Cannabidoil, when offered …

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus becomes WHO Director General

May 25, 2017
Medical Communications WHO

Ethiopian-born Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been announced as the Next Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) after securing …

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Inovio posts “exceptional” results for HIV vaccine

May 25, 2017
Research and Development AIDS, HIV, HIV vaccine, Vaccine

Inovio Pharmaceuticals has been working on HIV vaccines for a long time and, eight years after signing a $25 million …

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26 die after attempting to replace Abbott’s blood pump controller themselves

May 24, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Abbott, FDA, Medical device, deaths

At least 26 advanced heart failure patients have died and 19 have been injured by attempting to change the controller …

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MSD receives first FDA approval based on specific genetic feature

May 24, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MSD, Precision Medicine, biomarker, keytruda

In a historic first, MSD (known as Merck in North America) has received approval for its immunotherapy treatment Keytruda in …

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