Reforms will weaken health service accountability
June 1, 2011Sales and Marketing NHS reform, king's fund
The government has received yet more unwelcome news on health policy with a leading think tank warning its reforms will …
SCM wins contract to make high-potency cancer drug
May 31, 2011Manufacturing and Production SCM Pharma, Speciality European Pharma
UK contract manufacturing organisation SCM Pharma has been awarded a contract to make commercial supplies of a cancer drug due …
Pharma manufacturing news in brief
May 31, 2011Manufacturing and Production Aurobindo Pharma, Gallus, Lonza, ProMetic, Unigene
This week’s round-up of pharmaceutical manufacturing news includes new contracts for ProMetic and Unigene, plus facility updates from Aurobindo, Gallus …
Bayer wields the axe at Emeryville plant
May 31, 2011Manufacturing and Production Bayer, Emeryville, MS
Bayer Healthcare says it will cut 540 jobs at a production facility in Emeryville, California, next year after shifting production …
Quality by Design – the new manufacturing paradigm
May 31, 2011Manufacturing and Production Quality by Design, pharma manufacturing
Pharmaceutical manufacturing currently operates using processes that are widely seen as inefficient, inflexible and outdated. In the current system of …
Pfizer simplifies contract research with Parexel and Icon
May 27, 2011Research and Development ICON, Parexel, Pfizer, cros
Parexel and Icon have been chosen as Pfizer’s two long-term partners, in a move by the US pharma company to …
Clegg calls for further delay to Health Bill
May 27, 2011Health and Social Care Bill, NHS reforms
The government should amend its NHS reform plans and then allow them to be scrutinised further by MPs, the Deputy …
Digital Pharma: Roche launches online warfarin training for patients
May 27, 2011Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, Roche, anticoagulant, warfarin
Roche has launched an online training tool to help UK patients on long-term warfarin learn about anticoagulation self-monitoring. The CoaguChek …
J&J aims for Japanese pharma expansion
May 27, 2011Research and Development, Sales and Marketing J&J, JJ
Johnson & Johnson has identified Japan as a key growth market for its pharma business as it outlines its strategic …
Bayer contraceptive advert breaches Code of Practice
May 27, 2011Medical Communications ABPI Code of Practice, Bayer, Multaq, Sanofi, Yasmin
Bayer Healthcare has been singled out for “particular censure” by the PMCPA, the body which regulates the ABPI Code of …
Chandler Chicco wins award for work on Botox migraine launch
May 27, 2011Medical Communications Chandler Chicco, awards, medical communications
Chandler Chicco Agency has won an award for its work on the launch of Botox’s chronic migraine indication in the …
Digital Pharma: More painful progress for NHS electronic records
May 26, 2011Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, IT, NHS, electronic patient records
The NHS’ plans for electronic patient records are in tatters, dogged by missed deadlines, poor value for money and a …
Pharma faces ‘trench warfare’ with NHS
May 26, 2011Sales and Marketing Cost cutting, NHS, prescribing
The competing interests of the NHS and the pharma industry could end in trench warfare, a leading NHS figure has …
BMA calls for major amendments to Health Bill
May 26, 2011Health and Social Care Bill, NHS reforms
The BMA says the government should withdraw its plans for health reform completely and go back to the drawing board. …
British biotech: rebuilding momentum
May 26, 2011Research and Development UK, biotech, biotech funding
Since biotech first emerged in the UK in the late 1980s, the dream has always been for the country to …
NICE to appraise hep C drugs Victrelis and telaprevir
May 26, 2011Sales and Marketing Brinavess, Ilaris, NICE, Victrelis, Xarelto, Zytiga, telaprevir
NICE’s next round of drug appraisals is set to include two new hepatitis C drugs – Merck Sharpe and Dohme’s …
GSK’s Trobalt launched in UK
May 25, 2011Sales and Marketing GlaxoSmithKline, Trobalt, epilepsy, retigabine
GSK has launched its new epilepsy treatment Trobalt in the UK. Trobalt (retigabine) is as adjunctive treatment of partial onset …
Elan signs $20m research deal with Proteostasis
May 25, 2011Research and Development Elan, Proteostasis, neurodegenerative diseases
Elan Corporation has signed a deal with US small molecule drug specialist Proteostasis Therapeutics to develop products for conditions such …
Eisai extends neuroscience partnership with UCL
May 25, 2011Research and Development Eisai, UCL, academic alliance, academic research, neurodegenerative diseases
Eisai and University College London are to extend their partnership in neuroscience research. The Japanese company’s Neuroscience Product Creation Unit …
Contract research news in brief
May 25, 2011Research and Development contract research, contract research news
Mergers and acquisitions abound in our latest round-up of contract research sector news, as players try to achieve the global …
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