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BASF launches online magazine

June 13, 2013
Medical Communications BASF, chemicals, multimedia, online

The world’s leading chemical company BASF has launched an online version of its global magazine ‘Creating Chemistry.’ The publication which …

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Orencia matches Humira

June 13, 2013
Sales and Marketing AbbVie, Abbott, Humira, Orencia, RA

Bristol-Myers Squibb is hoping its biologic Orencia can grab a little more of the rheumatoid arthritis market after demonstrating non-inferiority …

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Swiss comms agency archimed joins Fishawack

June 13, 2013
Medical Communications archimed, fishawack

The Fishawack Group has acquired Swiss-based medical communications firm archimed in a deal that will expand both companies’ offerings.  The …

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‘Game-changing’ cancer database launched

June 13, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Department of Health, NHS

The Department of Health has unveiled a new system for co-ordinating cancer treatment which it hopes will save thousands of …

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Paul Karpecki joins Freedom Meditech Scientific Advisory Board

June 13, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Freedom meditech

Medical device company Freedom Meditech has appointed Dr Paul Karpecki to its Scientific Advisory Board. Karpecki currently works in corneal …

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Almac creates 229 jobs in Northern Ireland expansion

June 13, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Almac, Ireland, laxative

Northern Ireland-based Almac is planning to invest almost £14 million in another expansion of its pharma development and manufacturing operation …

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Pfizer wins $2.15 billion patent case

June 13, 2013
Sales and Marketing Pfizer, Takeda, Teva, protonix

Pfizer and Takeda are to split $2.15 billion in damages from two generics manufacturers as a settlement for lost sales, …

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NICE thumbs-up for Revolade

June 12, 2013
Sales and Marketing

GlaxoSmithKline’s once-daily pill Revolade may be used to treat NHS patients who have a rare blood disorder, according to final …

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Regulus names Stelios Papadopoulos as chairman

June 12, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alnylam, Exelixis, Regulas

Biopharma firm Regulas Therapeutics has named Stelios Papadopoulos chairman of its Board of directors.  Papadopoulos assumes the role from John …

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Diabetes drug risks fuel transparency debate

June 12, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMJ, Channel 4, all trials, diabetes, transaprency

A new investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the British Medical Journal is demanding that all trial data be released …

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French regulator probes Teva plant after patient death

June 12, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Teva, furosemide, zopiclone

France’s medicines regulator has started an investigation into a manufacturing facility operated by generic firm Teva in the wake of …

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ABPI: put more data in scorecards

June 12, 2013
Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, scorecards

The ABPI has called on the NHS to include more new medicines in its innovation scorecard and to come up …

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ABPI declares eye health services ‘unsustainable’

June 11, 2013
Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS England, POPI, eye health

The ABPI’s Pharmaceutical Ophthalmology Initiative (POPI) group has called for a major re-think in how eye services are delivered on the NHS.The …

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GSK fires head of China research over data fraud

June 11, 2013
Research and Development China, GSK, Jingwu Zang, MS, autoimmune

GlaxoSmithKline has dismissed its vice president of research in China in connection with ‘misrepresentation’ of research data.Jingwu Zang had been senior …

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Charities invest £4.2m for London biosciences hub

June 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Biochemical Society, London hub, Society for General Microbiology, Society of Biology

A collective of five charitable societies have come together to create a new bioscience hub in central London. The offices …

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Impax cuts staff at troubled California plant

June 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production FDA, Impax, Rytary

US generic drugmaker Impax Laboratories has said it plans to axe a tenth of its workforce and transfer production away …

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Questcor hires Shire’s chief executive

June 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Questcor, Shire

Biopharma firm Questcor Pharmaceuticals has appointed the recently-retired chief executive of Shire to its Board of directors.   Angus Russell …

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Novartis works in MS switch

June 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MS, Novartis, gilenya

Novartis’ oral MS drug Gilenya has been found to help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who switch to it after taking …

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High cure rate for Boehringer HCV drug

June 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer Ingelheim, HCV

One of Boehringer Ingelheim’s pipeline drugs has achieved high response rates in patients with chronic genotype-1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) in …

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AstraZeneca to pay up to $1.2 billion for Pearl

June 10, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, COPD, pearl therapeutics

AstraZeneca is betting big on lung disease specialist Pearl Therapeutics as it looks to spend $1.2 billion to acquire the …

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