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Pfizer breast cancer pill gets FDA nod

October 14, 2014
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Pfizer’s experimental breast cancer drug palbociclib has been accepted and granted a priority review by the US Food and Drug …

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Havas Life Medicom recruits from Pan

October 14, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Jon Linscott, Pan, havas life medicom

Healthcare comms firm Havas Life Medicom has appointed Jon Linscott to its team to serve as a senior director. Linscott …

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Hospira recalls drug due to storage hiccup

October 13, 2014
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Hospira has issued a recall of one lot of its injectable vancomycin hydrochloride in the US due to ‘uncontrolled storage …

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Steris to buy UK’s Synergy Health for $1.9 billion

October 13, 2014
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US-based medical technology firm Steris Corporation is to purchase Synergy Health in the UK for $1.9 billion and will shift …

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EMA keeps Ariad cancer drug on the market

October 13, 2014
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The EMA has recommended Ariad’s leukaemia drug Iclusig (ponatinib) should continue to be used under its current indication despite ongoing …

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NHS staff striking over pay

October 13, 2014
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Over 400,000 NHS staff have gone on strike for four hours as a 1% pay rise requested by Unions was …

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Patricell appoints sales executive

October 13, 2014
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Nottingham-based healthcare products firm Patricell is adding Carla Stemate to its team as a sales executive. Based at BioCity, Stemate …

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Pharma and transparency: actions speak louder than words

October 13, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, UK, alltrials, andrew powrie-smith, hcp, transparency

As an industry we continue to deliver innovative, life changing medicines and rewrite the story of many diseases, yet our …

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Novartis signs $90m deal with Oxford BioMedica

October 10, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CART-019, Novartis, Oxford BioMedica, immunotherapy, oxb

UK-based biotech Oxford BioMedica is working with Novartis in a transformational deal for the firm worth $90 million to develop …

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Endo buys Auxilium for $2.6 billion

October 10, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Endo, Testim, Testopel, auxilum

Endo International has agreed a $2.6 billion deal to buy Auxilium Pharmaceuticals in order for the company to gain access …

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New chief executive for Tonic Life Communications

October 10, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Huntsworth Health, mary smiddy, tonic life communications

Healthcare comms consultancy Tonic Life Communications that is a part of the Huntsworth Health family of agencies, has confirmed the …

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AstraZeneca president to lead Sanofi UK

October 9, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Tarja Stenvall

Sanofi has appointed Tarja Stenvall to be its new general manager for the UK and Ireland. Stenvall joins Sanofi from …

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Charity launches second cancer research game

October 9, 2014
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Cancer Research UK has launched its second citizen science game this year called ‘Reverse The Odds’ in an attempt to …

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Supervisory board member joins Bayer

October 9, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Otmar Wiestler

Professor Otmar Wiestler has been appointed to the supervisory board at German pharma giant Bayer. He replaces Dr Klaus Kleinfeld …

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Texas Ebola victim dies as diseases spreads

October 9, 2014
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A Liberian national named Thomas Eric Duncan has died in an isolation ward of a Dallas, Texas hospital after being …

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Novartis says three executives departing firm

October 9, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Andrin Oswald, Brian McNamara, GSK, George Gunn, Novartis, lilly, oncology, vaccines

Swiss pharma giant Novartis has announced three of its executives are to leave the firm following deals with Lilly and …

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RSA makes three appointments

October 9, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Mateja Forstnaric, Nicholas Draeger, Stefanie Blasi, rsa

Life sciences executive search and interim management firm RSA has appointed three consultants to its European teams.
  Stefanie Blasi (pictured) …

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European Medicines Group appoints two officers

October 8, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing David Garmon-Jones, EMG, Zinta Krumins

The European Medicines Group has elected new chairs to the body in David Garmon-Jones and Zinta Krumins, who will be …

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Mayor of London calls for dementia R&D centre

October 8, 2014
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The mayor of London Boris Johnson is calling on both the government and the private sector to come together and …

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Pharma ‘cannot deliver patient centricity’

October 8, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing European Brain Council, barcelona, eyeforpharma, mary baker

The former president of the European Brain Council Mary Baker believes pharma companies are focussing too much on patient centricity, …

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