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The numbers game: getting quantitative information to patients

November 17, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kadcyla, Les Rose, clinical, myeloma, numbers, numerics

The great physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you can measure something, and express it in numbers, then you know something …

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Epic Sciences hires HR head from Prometheus

November 17, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing epic sciences, toni wayne

Epic Sciences has confirmed the appointment of Toni Wayne as the vice president of its human resources department. Wayne has …

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EMA in turmoil as top job ‘annulled’

November 17, 2014
Sales and Marketing EC, EMA, EU, Europe, Guido Rasi, Rasi, transparency

The future of Guido Rasi, head of Europe’s drugs regulator, is up in the air after a legal ruling which …

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Hunt unveils £10 billion NHS savings plan

November 14, 2014
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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid out efficiency plans that he hopes will save the NHS up to £10 billion …

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Woodley Announces the Appointment of Sarah Dopson

November 14, 2014

 

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MSF starts trials of Ebola candidates

November 14, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ebola, MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières, avigan, brincidofovir, favipiravir

Three experimental Ebola therapies will be tested at sites operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in West Africa, according to …

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EMA responds to redaction concerns

November 14, 2014
Sales and Marketing AbbVie, EMA, Goldacre, Humira, Rasi, adalimumab, redactions, transparency

The EMA has published a response to European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly’s questions about some of its trial data redactions. O’Reilly’s …

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Cost of NHS medicines rises

November 14, 2014
Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, NICE, PPRS, drugs, hospitals, spend

Hospitals in England are taking an increasing share of the NHS’s bill for drugs approved by NICE, according to a …

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Actavis appoints Pepsi head as CFO amid takeover talk

November 14, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, maria moen, pepsi

Dublin-based speciality pharma firm Actavis which is currently in talks to buy Allergan for $60 billion, has hired a chief …

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NHS to ‘kitemark’ health-related apps

November 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Apple, Hunt, NHS, Samsung, apps, kitemark, wearables

Plans to improve the quality of patient care by introducing a ‘kitemark’ to safely validate healthcare apps have been announced …

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Allergan eyeing Actavis buyout

November 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, Allergan, Botox, Valeant, acquisition, buyout, merger

Allergan is attempting to block a recent Valeant hostile takeover bid by seeking the rumoured alternative merger deal with Actavis, …

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Charity ‘deeply concerned’ on CDF changes

November 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, NHS, NICE, breakthrough breast cancer, palframan

A leading cancer charity has warned that a number of key drugs are at risk of being withdrawn from patients …

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Laser testing could lead to improved asthma therapies

November 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Oxford, asthma, pmdis, pope, stfc

UK scientists have used a laser beam trap to examine how drug particles from asthma inhalers travel through the air …

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GE and Takeda make liver pact

November 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GE Healthcare, Japan, Takeda, US, liver, nafld, nash

GE Healthcare and Takeda Pharmaceutical have joined forces to develop treatments which target liver conditions including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …

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VorroHealth hires VP of Care Innovation

November 13, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing maria moen, vorrohealth

VorroHealth the healthcare clinical tech provider firm has appointed Maria Moen to the newly-created position of vice president of Care Innovation. Moen …

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Horizon forms new cancer advisory board

November 12, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, Horizon Discovery, Karin Schmitt, Paul Morrill, biotech, sab

UK biotech Horizon Discovery has formed a new Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for its diagnostics arm to recommend better cancer …

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Numerous prospects in health technology say analysts

November 12, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing 3D, AstraZeneca, F&S, app, digital, frost and sullivan, fs, wearables

Medical devices and imaging technology have been included in a recent analysis of the top 50 most innovative technologies. Frost …

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Dendreon files for bankruptcy

November 12, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Dendreon, Provenge, awick, delaware, johnson, nj

Dendreon Corporation, the troubled manufacturer of high-cost cancer vaccine Provenge, has filed for bankruptcy as a prelude to restructuring its …

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NHS Better Care Fund lacks guidance, says watchdog

November 12, 2014
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A much-lauded project to reduce unnecessary hospital visits and shift care into the community will fall well short of its …

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Doctors warn of urgent care ‘chaos’

November 12, 2014
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Doctors’ leaders are demanding greater investment in out-of-hours GP services, warning of ‘fragmentation’ and underfunding, and branding the current system …

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