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March 9, 2018
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, Biogen, Celgene, EMA, Gilead, HIV, Herceptin, Japan, NHS, Ontruzant, Sanofi, opioid crisis, opioids, pharma, real world data, top ten, zinbryta

After a particularly jarring bout of cold weather and snow, we may just have seen off the worst of winter …

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GSK loses £37m appeal over pay-to-delay tactics to block Seroxat competition

March 9, 2018
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GSK, Pay to delay, Seroxat, antidepressant, pay-to-delay, pharma

GlaxoSmithKline has suffered a sizeable blow after losing an appeal disputing that it had engaged in anti-competitive pay-to-delay tactics to …

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Convert secures €13.6m grant to develop targeted chemo for oxygen-deprived tumours

March 9, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development Belgium, Cancer, Convert pharma, chemotherapy, pharma

Belgium’s Convert Pharmaceuticals has secured a €13.6 million grant for initial development efforts on a new targeted chemotherapy drug which …

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Appeal could throw spanner in the works for Regeneron’s Irish expansion

March 9, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Ireland, Regeneron, pharma

Regeneron is facing a single man-sized obstacle in plans to expand operations at its campus in Limerick, Ireland with a …

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VBL Therapeutics’ shares plummet on Phase 3 glioblastoma failure

March 9, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development VBL, VBL Therapeutics, glioblastoma, pharma, trial failure

Israeli drug development firm VBL Therapeutics has been left reeling after it announced that its lead oncology product ofranergene obadenovec, …

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Opioids are no more effective than common painkillers, study reveals

March 8, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development US, opioid crisis, opioids, pharma

A team of researchers at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System has found that, for all their risks, opioids …

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Ontruzant launches to become first Herceptin biosimilar available in the UK

March 8, 2018
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Herceptin, MSD, Ontruzant, Roche, Samsung Bioepis, pharma

Ontruzant, the biosimilar version of Herceptin (trastuzumab ) originally developed by Korean firm Samsung Bioepis, has launched for patients in …

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EvoTec to command vast Sanofi resources in infectious disease R&D partnership

March 8, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Evotec, Sanofi, infectious disease, infective disease, pharma

Sanofi has announced it is to team up with biotech drug discovery specialist EvoTec to leverage a new open innovation …

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Eisai and MSD team up to combine Lenvima and Keytruda in cancer

March 8, 2018
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Eisai, Kidney cancer, Lenvima, MSD, Merck, keytruda, pharma

Pharma heavyweights MSD (Merck) and Eisai have announced they are to join forces to develop and commercialise the latter’s tyrosine …

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Sanofi’s controversial dengue vaccine may still hit US market, despite Philippines disaster

March 7, 2018
Sales and Marketing FDA, Philippines, Sanofi, US, dengue, dengvaxia, pharma

Sanofi has revealed that the ongoing debacle in the Philippines concerning its dengue vaccine Dengvaxia has not deterred it from …

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FDA greenlights alternative therapy for multidrug-resistant HIV patients

March 7, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing HIV, Theratechnologies, Trogarzo, pharma

Theratechnologies has revealed that Trogarzo has received approval from the FDA as a treatment of HIV-1 in patients with multidrug-resistant …

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Former Sanofi exec accused of sexting and indecent exposure demands €1.2m

March 7, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, pharma

A former Sanofi executive fired for sexting, indecent exposure and other alleged sexual harassment charges has been demanding up to …

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Study reveals “concerning” low standards of type 2 diabetes drugs in India

March 7, 2018
Research and Development India, diabetes, pharma, regulatory, type 2 diabetes

In what they believe is the first study of its kind, a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts …

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Japan saves record $12.2bn in 2017 through greater generic use

March 7, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Japan, generics, keytruda, opdivo, pharma

Through a concerted shift from branded drugs to generic equivalents as a means to lower prescription costs, Japan is estimated …

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FDA authorises first direct-to-consumer test for BRCA mutations, with caveats

March 6, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 23andME, BRCA, Cancer, FDA, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, pharma

The FDA has given its authorisation to the first ever direct-to-consumer (DTC) test to identify three BRCA gene mutations which …

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Blood test could predict treatment effectiveness months earlier in breast cancer

March 6, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Cancer, ICR, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, breast cancer, palbociclib, pharma

A team of scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research in London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust have …

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Switching to Gilead’s Biktarvy proves non-inferior in HIV patients

March 6, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Biktarvy, Gilead, HIV, pharma

Gilead has unveiled findings from two Phase 3 studies into the efficacy of switching to its three-drug combo Biktarvy (bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir …

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University of Adelaide is fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs by starving them of iron

March 6, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Adelaide, Australia, Superbugs, antibiotic resistance, pharma

A team of researchers from Australia’s University of Adelaide have developed a new method to fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria by starving …

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Martin Shkreli ordered to forfeit $7.36m ahead of fraud sentencing

March 6, 2018
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Martin Shkreli, pharma

Reviled pharma bro Martin Shkreli is experiencing another heavy dose of karma after a US judge ordered him to forfeit …

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Dermira terminates acne drug after Phase 3 failure, wiping $667m from market value

March 5, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Dermira, acne, pharma, trial failure

Skin specialist biopharma firm Dermira has seen its stock crash and burn following the announcement that it plans to terminate …

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