PhRMA blames hospitals for rising drug prices, hospitals association responds
September 11, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Donald Trump, Drug pricing, PhRMA, hospitals, pharma
The American pharmaceutical industry trade lobby PhRMA has suggested that hospitals are to blame for high drug prices as the …
Purdue-owning Sackler family own second opioid drug maker, FT reveals
September 10, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, opioid, opioid crisis, sackler
The billionaire Sackler family, the owners of OxyContin drugmaker Purdue Pharma, have been revealed to own a second opioid drug …
Novo Nordisk stockpiles 16 weeks’ worth of insulin in preparation for hard Brexit
September 10, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EU, Novo Nordisk, UK, brexit, insulin, pharma, stockpiles
Danish multinational Novo Nordisk has announced that they are increasing their stocks of insulin products to ensure that there are …
Drug safety: UK and EU post-Brexit
September 10, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, EU, Europe, MHRA, UK, brexit, drug safety, pharmacovigilance
What does Brexit mean for drug safety in Europe and the United Kingdom? Louis Goss looks into Britain’s exit from …
BMS’ Opdivo fails to win over NICE as adjuvant melanoma therapy
September 10, 2018Sales and Marketing BMS, NHS, NICE, melanoma, opdivo, pharma
Bristol-Myers Squibb has failed to convince NICE to approve the use of its PD-1 inhibitor immunotherapy Opdivo (nivolumab) as an …
Keytruda scores ground-breaking European approval in lung cancer subgroup
September 10, 2018Sales and Marketing Cancer, EU, Europe, MSD, Merck, NSCLC, keytruda, lung cancer, pharma
Keytruda (pembrolizumab) has chalked up yet another approval for MSD, this time in Europe in combination with permextred and platinum-based …
GSK’s Nucala data insufficient for US COPD approval
September 10, 2018Sales and Marketing COPD, FDA, GSK, Nucala, US, pharma
GlaxoSmithKline has suffered a regulatory blow in the label expansion of its interleukin-5 (IL5) inhibitor Nucala (mepolizumab), with the FDA …
Akcea cuts 10% of staff following FDA rejection
September 10, 2018Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Akcea, FDA, Waylivra, pharma
Akcea Therapeutics has been hit hard by the FDA’s decision to reject its drug Waylivra (volanesorsen) for the treatment of …
NICE rejects Roche’s Ocrevus in primary progressive multiple sclerosis
September 10, 2018Sales and Marketing NICE, Ocrevus, Roche, UK, multiple sclerosis, pharma
Of the 100,000 MS patients in England, around one in eight have the primary progressive form (PPMS), which brings debilitating …
UK Government to invest £200m in IT and technology boost for NHS
September 7, 2018Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AI, Matt Hancock, NHS, NHS expo, pharma
The UK Government has lifted the curtain on plans invest more than £200 million to leverage innovations in technology and …
Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week
September 7, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, MHRA, Trump, brexit, research, scandal, top 10
Brexit took the top two spots this week after it was revealed that the EMA has awarded Britain’s MHRA just …
BC Liberal criticises opioid lawsuit for focusing too heavily on drugmakers
September 7, 2018Medical Communications
The British Columbia Liberal opposition Critic for Mental Health and Addictions has tweeted that the lawsuits seeking damages from pharmaceutical …
Gilead and Galapagos’ ankylosing spondylitis drug hits Phase 2 trial goal
September 7, 2018Medical Communications, Research and Development Galapagos, Gilead, ankylosing spondylitis, filgotinib, pharma
Gilead and Galapagos have announced that their jointly-developed selective JAK1 inhibitor filgotinib has met its primary endpoint in a Phase …
FDA recruitment official says Trump’s policies are making hiring difficult
September 7, 2018Medical Communications FDA, Trump, US, hiring, recruitment
Melanie Keller, Acting Associate Commissioner for Scientific and Clinical Recruitment at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said …
Rheos Medicines appoints Roche Senior Vice President and R&D head as new CEO
September 6, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amgen, CEO, Roche, cembridge, massachussets, rheos, sanjay keswani
The Cambridge Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company Rheos Medicines has appointed former Roche Senior Vice President and Global R&D Head, Dr Sanjay …
A rational new approach to cancer treatment
September 6, 2018Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, University of East Anglia, feature, pharma
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have developed a new targeted cancer therapy which utilises nanoparticles to deliver treatment …
Novartis sells key Sandoz US portfolios to Aurobindo for $1bn
September 6, 2018Sales and Marketing Aurobindo, Novartis, Sandoz, pharma
Novartis has revealed it is to sell the dermatology and generic US oral solids portfolios of its generics arm Sandoz …
Teva drops MS and Huntington’s disease drug laquinimod, leaving rights to Active Biotech
September 6, 2018Medical Communications, Research and Development Active Biotech, Laquinimod, Teva, pharma
Israeli multinational Teva Pharmaceutical has decided to discontinue the development of laquinimod. As such, all rights for the orally administered …
WHO ship 500 tons of medicine to Yemen
September 6, 2018Manufacturing and Production Sanaa, WHO, Yemen, middle east, sana'a, war
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has airlifted more than 500 tons of medicines to Yemen over the previous month in …
GSK to axe 650 positions across US workforce
September 6, 2018Manufacturing and Production GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, pharma
GlaxoSmithKline has announced its intention to cut 650 employees from its current US workforce, with the cutbacks coming as part …
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