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NHS Digital lambasted for collusion with Home Office to deport migrants

January 31, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development NHS Digital, biotech, drugs, immigration, pharma, pharmaceutical

NHS Digital, the Department of Health and the Home Office have been strongly criticised for entering a memorandum of understanding …

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Pfizer teams up with Indian Government to battle antimicrobial resistance

January 31, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development India, Pfizer, antimicrobial resistance, pharma

Pfizer has entered into a partnership with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in an effort to fight antimicrobial …

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Amazon makes first steps into healthcare, alongside big partners

January 31, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan, amazon, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Amazon’s move into the healthcare sector has been widely mooted over the last 12 months and it officially announced that …

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Italy refuses to give up hope on EMA HQ

January 30, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development EMA, amsterdam, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

It is no secret that Milan was not best pleased that it was pipped to the post to host the …

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Read Pharmafocus January/February 2018 edition online now!

January 30, 2018
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AI, Ablynx, Alex Azr, Celgene, Pharmafocus, Sanofi, UK, artificial intelligence, bioverativ, brexit, juno therapeutics, multiple myeloma, serialisation

With the holiday period a distant memory by now, Pharmafocus is back with its January/febraury edition. It’s hard to imagine …

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Philippines’ Department of Health demands full refund of $70m Dengvaxia programme from Sanofi

January 30, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Philippines, Sanofi, dengue, dengvaxia, pharma

In the latest development in Sanofi’s Philippines dengue vaccine scandal, the nation’s Department of Health has demanded that the French …

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Apotex President resigns amidst Founder’s murder and allegations of accepting Teva secrets

January 30, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Apotex, Jeremy Desai, Teva, pharma

Following the alleged murder of its founder Barry Sherman and his wife in December last year, Canada’s largest generic drug …

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Celgene Executive Chairman Bob Hugin to retire

January 30, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Bob Hugin, Celgene, pharma

Fresh from its acquisition of Juno Therapeutics, Celgene has announced that its Executive Chairman Bob Hurgin is to retire effective …

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FDA revises methods, after public outrage at testing of monkeys

January 29, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications FDA, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

The story broke in September of last year that the FDA was testing nicotine addiction in squirrel monkeys and that …

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Santhera’s Raxone rejected in Europe for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

January 29, 2018
Sales and Marketing Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, EMA, Europe Santhera, pharma

While the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended a spree of treatments over the past week, …

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Delivering the life sciences agenda: Easy as ABC

January 29, 2018
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Life sciences strategy, biotech, brexit, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Andrew Blevins and Andrew Carrington of Liberty Property Trust and Countryside Properties explain how organisations at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus …

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Radioactive drug given approval by the FDA

January 29, 2018
Sales and Marketing Advanced Accelerator Applications, Lutathera, Novartis, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

The FDA has approved Lutathera, marking the first time that the agency has given approval for a radioactive drug or …

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EMA committee recommends seven therapies from Roche, GSK, MSD and more

January 29, 2018
Sales and Marketing Biocon, Chiesi, Chugai, GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD, Mylan, Roche, Sanofi, pharma

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has voiced its recommendation of a raft of …

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Brexit Health Alliance warns of UK at back of the medicine queue

January 29, 2018
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing biotech, brexit, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

The Brexit Health Alliance (BHA) has cautioned that unless a favourable deal is struck, the UK could end Brexit negotiations …

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Sanofi swoops for Ablynx in $4.8bn deal

January 29, 2018
Sales and Marketing Ablynx, Sanofi, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Sanofi has moved quickly to tie up a deal with Ablynx for $4.8 billion, when it looked more likely that …

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Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week

January 26, 2018
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Abcam, Alzheimer's, Dr Reddy's, GSK, J&J, JJ, Reckitt Benckiser, Remicade, Sanofi, influenza, opioid crisis, opioids, top ten, valproate

As we come to the end of January, it’s Friday again – time for another rundown of the top ten …

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NICE urges curbing the use of antibiotics for sore throats

January 26, 2018
Medical Communications Antibiotics, NICE, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

In a study published by the BMJ a few years ago, it was found that antibiotics were prescribed in 60% …

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AZ’s triple therapy inhaler hits 8 out of 9 endpoints

January 26, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development AstraZeneca, COPD, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

AstraZeneca has made a brief announcement that its triple therapy inhaler manage to successfully hit eight of nine primary endpoints …

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iQOS heat-not-burn electronic tobacco product doesn’t reduce health risk, FDA says

January 26, 2018
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing FDA, Philip Morris, iQOS, pharma, smoking, tobacco

An advisory panel of the FDA has judged that US tobacco firm Philip Morris International (PMI) has not been able …

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Biogen announces acquisition along with financials, but it’s tiny

January 26, 2018
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Biogen, Karyopharm, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Biogen is one those companies, like Sanofi until its recent Bioverativ acquisition, that has real pressure to make a big …

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