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Roche cleared over rep conduct complaint

September 23, 2011
Sales and Marketing ABPI Code of Practice, Roche

Roche has been cleared by Code regulator the PMCPA of any wrongdoing after an NHS employee complained about the promotion …

News

Value-based pricing won’t encourage innovation, says ABPI

September 23, 2011
Sales and Marketing value-based pricing

The ABPI has come out against the government’s reforms of drug pricing in the UK, saying its plans need a …

News

NHS ‘wasted’ £625 million on modern insulin

September 23, 2011
Sales and Marketing diabetes, insulin

The NHS has wasted £625 million on modern insulin products over the last decade, according to a new report in …

News

Healthcare 2025: what the future holds for pharma

September 22, 2011
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NHS reform, healthcare reform, healthcare spending, prescribing

We are in the middle of a huge upheaval where everything we know is being turned on its head. Welcome …

Feature

J&J’s hep C drug Incivo approved in Europe

September 22, 2011
Sales and Marketing Incivek, Incivo, Victrelis

J&J’s potential blockbuster hepatitis C treatment Incivo has been approved in Europe. Incivo (telaprevir) was approved in combination with peginterferon …

News

Sanofi spots acne vaccine opportunity

September 22, 2011
Research and Development Sanofi, acne, dermatology

Sanofi Pasteur has signed a new research deal with the University of California, San Diego for its investigational acne vaccine. …

News

Pfizer to cut 11% of its workforce in Spain

September 22, 2011
Sales and Marketing Pfizer, Spain, job cuts

Pfizer will cut 220 jobs in Spain as the government reduces spending on pharmaceuticals to help offset its growing debt …

News

RSA boosts team with new appointments

September 22, 2011
Business Services appointment, business services

Global life sciences executive search and interim management firm RSA has made a series of new appointments across its practices. …

Appointment

Health secretary calls for global action on lifestyle conditions

September 21, 2011
cardiovascular, diabetes, respiratory, smoking

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has urged governments across the world to be “bold and determined” in working together to tackle …

News

NHS reforms face pressure from the Lords

September 21, 2011
NHS reform

Peers are starting to voice their criticism of the government’s planned NHS reforms as the Health and Social Bill passes …

News
President Obama

Obama proposes seven year rule for biologics

September 21, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Obama, biologics

President Obama has returned to the issue of market exclusivity for biologic drugs as a way of cutting healthcare costs. …

News

Silence Therapeutics appoints Thomas Christely

September 21, 2011
Research and Development appointment, research and development

UK-headquartered biotech Silence Therapeutics has appointed Thomas Christély as chief executive. He was instrumental in the merger of Silence Therapeutics …

Appointment

Pfizer to invest $200m in Irish biomanufacturing plant

September 21, 2011
Manufacturing and Production Ireland, Pfizer, pharma manufacturing news

Pfizer is planning to invest around €145 million ($200m) at its biomanufacturing facility in Co Dublin, Ireland, according to the …

News
Janssen's Zytiga

Janssen’s Zytiga launched in the UK

September 21, 2011
Sales and Marketing Zytiga, prostate cancer

Janssen’s new advanced prostate cancer treatment Zytiga has been launched in the UK. Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) has been shown in …

News

Pharmacovigilance Compliance Report submission; MHRA’s Risk Based Compliance Programme

September 20, 2011
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing PV, Wainwright Associates

A new version of the MHRA pharmacovigilance Compliance Report (Good Pharmacovigilance Practice Questionnaire) has been released by the MHRA.Submission of …

News
Press release

Roche to show new cancer data at European congress

September 20, 2011
Research and Development Cancer, Roche, T-DM1, Zelboraf, avastin

Roche will highlight a range of new approaches in targeting cancer at the upcoming European cancer conference. In a series …

News
Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer’s Trajenta launched in the UK

September 20, 2011
Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Trajenta, diabetes

Boehringer Ingelheim has launched its new diabetes drug Trajenta in the UK, with a price tag to match its rival …

News

Teva makes commitment to Russian manufacturing facility

September 20, 2011
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Russia, Teva

Teva has joined a number of its peers in the pharmaceutical sector and announced plans to build a new manufacturing …

News

Intersex fish add to concerns about pharma wastewater

September 20, 2011
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production Contamination, pharma manufacturing news

Researchers in France have discovered that wild fish living downstream from a pharmaceutical production plant making steroid drugs show serious …

News
Merck Serono

Merck licences new MS drug

September 19, 2011
Research and Development Cladribine, Merck KGaA, Merck Serono, PI-2301

Merck KGaA has in-licensed a new multiple sclerosis drug and aims to start it in phase II studies later this …

News
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