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June 9, 2017Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing biggest news, biggest stories, top 10, top 10 stories, top stories, top ten
It’s been a week for successful trial news and for drugs being sped through the approval process. Particularly noteworthy is …
Continuous Manufacturing: Novartis’ experiment in the future of drug production
June 9, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Novartis, continuous manufacturing
Continuous manufacturing has long been touted as the future of drug production. Pharmafile approached Novartis for more details about its successes in …
Lilly bolsters diabetes assets with $55m KeyBioscience deal
June 9, 2017Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Eli Lilly, KeyBiosciences
Eli Lilly has announced a strategic collaboration with KeyBioscience that sees the former company gain access to develop and commercialise …
Actelion spin-off hit by blow shortly before buyout
June 9, 2017Medical Communications, Research and Development Actelion, Idorsia, J&J, JJ
Idorsia, the spin-off R&D company of Actelion, has been hit a blow even before it has left the ground. The …
FDA calls for withdrawal of opioid product for first time in history
June 9, 2017Medical Communications Endo pharmaceuticals, FDA, Scott Gottlieb
The FDA, since the appointment of Scott Gottlieb as commissioner, has made strong noises about tackling the opioid crisis and …
Data-driven insights: Keeping pace with the technological boom
June 8, 2017Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Big Data, data, technology
If you want to understand the importance of data, look at Google and Facebook – neither company is out of …
Calls strengthen for HPV vaccine for boys
June 8, 2017Medical Communications, Research and Development HPV, HPV vaccine
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine began to be implemented in the UK in 2008. It started by immunising girls between …
Blood biomarker found to track development of Huntington’s disease
June 8, 2017Research and Development UCL, huntington's disease
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare and incurable hereditary condition of the central nervous system. The condition can cause involuntary …
AbbVie posts promising data on RA drug
June 8, 2017Research and Development AbbVie, JAK inhibitor
AbbVie posted results on upadacitinib, the latest drug in its pipeline for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the results have given …
Pfizer gets fast-track approval for rare heart condition
June 8, 2017Sales and Marketing Pfizer
Pfizer’s tafamidis has already been given approval in 40 countries across the globe but it has not currently broken into …
Genes found to play an important role in empathy
June 8, 2017Research and Development 23andME, University of Cambridge
A recent study, conducted by the University of Cambridge, has found that DNA plays a part in determining an individual’s …
Novartis and IBM form breast cancer research partnership
June 7, 2017Research and Development Novartis, ibm
Novartis is to join forces with tech giant IBM and its Watson Health platform to tackle advanced breast cancer with …
Unprecedented CAR-T data shows 100% response rate
June 7, 2017Research and Development ASCO, CAR T, CAR-T
Researchers celebrated a world-first at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, revealing data which showed that, in a study …
Takeda launches construction of €40 million Dublin facility
June 7, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Dublin, Ireland, Takeda
Takeda has officially launched the construction of a new €40 million expansion of its production facility in Dublin, Ireland, with …
1 in 6 US patients are given wrong dose of blood-thinners, study suggests
June 7, 2017Research and Development Mayo Clinic, atrial fibrillation, blood thinner, blood-thinner
New research data from the Mayo Clinic has suggested that as much as one in six patients suffering from atrial …
Servier fights fine over antitrust breaches
June 7, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing European Commission, Servier, generic
Servier, a French pharmaceutical firm, has sought to lower the fine it received from the European Commission for breaching antitrust …
Oxford Uni collaboration Scenic Biotech secures funding for its ‘genetic off-switch’
June 6, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development University of Oxford
The University of Oxford has joined forces with the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in an international collaboration known as Scenic …
Novartis and BMS partner up to explore Mekinist/Opdivo combinations
June 6, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development
Novartis and Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced they are to enter a clinical research partnership to investigate and assess the effectiveness …
ABPI launches online tool for greater research collaboration
June 6, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development
A new tool developed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry could lead to stronger research relationships between the …
Pfizer drug beats AZ rival in halting lung cancer
June 6, 2017Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development NSCLC, Pfizer
New data from late-stage trials suggests that Pfizer’s dacomitinib beat out AstraZeneca’s rival treatment Iressa (gefitinib) at halting the progression …
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