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1,100 jobs to go as Ben Venue confirms closure of Bedford unit

October 7, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Ben Venue, Boehringer, FDA

Boehringer Ingelheim is calling time on its troubled facility in Ohio operated by Ben Venue Laboratories and says it will …

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EMA gets first line Arzerra submission

October 7, 2013
Sales and Marketing Arzerra, GSK, Genmab, blood cancer

GlaxoSmithKline and Genmab have submitted their blood cancer drug Arzerra to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in a first line …

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‘Kick in the teeth’ for NHS

October 7, 2013
Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, burnham

The UK Labour party has hit back at a government move to scrap a 1% pay rise for more than …

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Labour may sue Hunt over ‘cover-up’ tweet

October 7, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Hunt, Labour, NHS, Twitter, cover up

The Labour Party is considering suing the health secretary Jeremy Hunt over an alleged libellous Twitter post made on the …

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Manufacturing facilities news in brief

October 7, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Capsugel, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Pfizer, Purdue Pharma, Warner Chilcott

New facilities, plant shutdowns and layoffs in the pharma manufacturing sector.

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SHL reaches a new milestone of 2000 employees in Taiwan

October 7, 2013
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SHL, the world’s largest privately-owned designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery devices, officially announced reaching a new milestone …

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Pharma blogs: going beyond the press release?

October 7, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, blogs, press releases, social media

The rise of personal blogging has grown in the past decade with millions taking to the internet to tell their …

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Daiichi Sankyo hires two new executives

October 7, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Daiichi Sankyo

Daiichi Sankyo has appointed Glenn Gormley to be its corporate president and chairman, and Greg Barrett as a new acting …

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J&J partners with European biotech firms

October 4, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing J&J, JJ, effimune, life sciences, merus

The London Johnson & Johnson Innovation Centre has teamed up with several biotech partners from the European region. Announced at …

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Brintellix ‘yes’ from FDA

October 4, 2013
Sales and Marketing FDA, Lundbeck, Takeda, brintellix

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and Lundbeck are celebrating after the FDA approved their depression treatment Brintellix – despite there being no …

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Lilly plans trio of launches

October 4, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing lilly, pipeline

Lilly plans to launch at least three new medicines next year, senior managers announced during a meeting with analysts and …

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Porter Novelli hires deputy managing director

October 4, 2013
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PR firm Porter Novelli has announced that Fenella Grey has been named as its deputy managing director. Grey joined the …

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Global cancer crisis flagged in report

October 3, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing IPRI, Roche, wprld prevention alliance

A new report advocates the formation of a major industry-backed initiative to tackle the world’s growing cancer burden.  Sponsored by …

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More companies join AZ’s BioHub

October 3, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cambridge, alderley

Half a dozen more bioscience companies are to become tenants at the Alderley Park BioHub in Cheshire, filling some of …

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4C Consultants International announces two hires

October 3, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing

Deesha Majithia and Helen Jones have joined comms agency 4C Consultants International. Majithia joins the firm as a project manager …

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NICE U-turn on MabThera

October 3, 2013
Sales and Marketing MabThera, NHS, NICE, Roche

NICE is thinking about recommending Roche’s MabThera for a rare autoimmune condition – a move which represents a partial victory …

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Merck axes 8,500 more jobs

October 2, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Jobs, Merck, R&D, cuts

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US shutdown starts to bite – UPDATED

October 2, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDC, FDA, Medicare, Obama, Obamacare

Twenty-four hours into the US government’s shutdown, the impact on pharma of the freezing of federal government activity remains hard …

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Calls to end UK anti-vaccine magazine

October 2, 2013
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British retailers like Tesco and WH Smiths are being urged to drop an anti-vaccine magazine as it could be dangerous …

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Hunt: ‘We will never cover up’

October 2, 2013
Sales and Marketing CQC, Cameron, Hunt, NHS

In a speech which mixed the personal and the political at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester yesterday, health secretary …

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