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LipoScience reappoints chief medical officer

September 12, 2013
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Diagnostics firm LipoScience has once again hired William Cromwell to be its chief medical officer. He joins the company for …

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UK trial rules tightened up

September 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing all trials, hra, transparency

Anyone wanting to conduct clinical trials in the UK will have to register their research in order to receive a …

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AstraZeneca pays Merck for cancer drug

September 11, 2013
Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, Merck, WEE1

AstraZeneca is to pay $50 million up front to get a worldwide licensing deal for one of Merck’s investigational drugs …

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NHS Confederation chief executive quits to be a consultant

September 11, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Mike Farrar, NHS, scandal

Mike Farrar is to stand down as chief executive of the NHS Confederation at the end of the month in …

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Biogen signs neurology deal

September 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Biogen IDEC, Isis, antisense, neurology

Biogen Idec and Isis Pharmaceuticals have entered their fourth partnership in two years in a deal that will see the …

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Regeneron appoints senior VP from Pfizer

September 11, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Pfizer, Regeneron, landry

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has hired Robert Landry from Pfizer to be its senior vice president and chief financial officer.  Landry will …

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Hospira’s Inflectra approved in Europe

September 10, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Hospira, Janssen, Remicade, biosimilars, inflectra

Hospira has been the first firm to meet the European Commission’s approval for a biosimilar monoclonal antibody therapy with its …

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EFPIA slams EMA data proposals

September 10, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AZ, EFPIA, EMA, GSK, Pfizer, Roche

The intense debate over how pharma should make trial data available has taken another turn as a major European industry …

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GSK completes £1.35 billion Suntory deal

September 10, 2013
Sales and Marketing GSK, Suntory, lucozade, ribena

GlaxoSmithKline has confirmed it is to sell Lucozade and Ribena to Japanese drinks giant Suntory Beverage & Food for £1.35 …

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Capsugel on the acquisition trail once again

September 10, 2013
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Capsugel has agreed to buy US company Bend Research in another transaction that expands its drug delivery division. The deal …

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J&J’s manufacturing recovery hits a hurdle

September 10, 2013
Manufacturing and Production API, J&J, JJ, McNeil, Motrin, recall

Johnson & Johnson’s path back to regulatory compliance in its manufacturing operations has hit another snag after the firm was …

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Robert Brooks joins Achilles from Abbott

September 10, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, Abbott, achilles, brook

Supply chain firm Achilles has hired Dr Robert Brooks to be a Business Development director from pharma firm Abbott. Brooks …

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Mid Staffs not only ‘dark spot’ in NHS

September 10, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing BMJ, Mid Staffs, NHS

The scandal of poor patient care at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is likely to be far from an …

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Green light at Merck facility boosts varicella vaccine supplies

September 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Merck, Taylor, varicella

Prospects for Merck & Co’s vaccines for shingles and chickenpox have been lifted by approval of additional bulk manufacturing capacity …

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Gedeon Richter named and shamed

September 9, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Gedeon Richter, PMCPA

Gedeon Richter (UK) has been named and shamed in advertisements by the PMCPA, which rules on breaches of the ABPI …

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GSK has ‘serious concerns’ about China

September 9, 2013
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GlaxoSmithKline is said to be thinking about abandoning China altogether as the company continues to co-operate with the country’s authorities …

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SYNthesis med chem opens new facility in Cambridge

September 9, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, China, SYNthesis med chem

Contract research organisation SYNthesis med chem has announced that it has joined the bio-medical cluster by opening a new facility …

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RDC appoints director from Munro and Forster

September 9, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing RDC, claire grindal, munro and forster

Claire Grindal has joined Red Door Communications (RDC) as an associate director from Munro and Forster. Grindal was part of …

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Untapping the unconscious: the next revolution in pharma marketing

September 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Strategic North, allman, pharma marketing, sharman

There has been a lot of doom and gloom about the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, with drying pipelines and …

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Novartis signs Regenerex deal

September 9, 2013
Sales and Marketing CLL, Novartis, kidney, regenerex

Novartis has signed a deal with US biopharma firm Regenerex to use its novel stem cell-based platform, which may have …

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