New head of industrial operations at Bayer
November 18, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Klaus Schäfer
Bayer MaterialScience is getting a new head of industrial operations and technology as Dr Tony Van Osselaer retires from the …
Synergy Vision’s Ffyona Dawber wins Gold and Silver at the 2014 Stevie Awards for Women in Business
November 17, 2014Medical Communications Stevie awards, Synergy Vision, medical communications agency
Ffyona Dawber has scooped two prestigious Stevie® Awards at the 11th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business held in …
GSK tops pharma league for access
November 17, 2014Sales and Marketing Africa, GSK, Novo Nordisk, access, market, vaccines
GlaxoSmithKline is basking in some good news after topping the league table of pharma companies which do the most to …
FDA green lights Lemtrada for MS
November 17, 2014Sales and Marketing FDA, Genzyme, Lemtrada, MS, Sanofi, rems, tecfidera
The US FDA has approved Sanofi’s Lemtrada for multiple sclerosis, almost a year after rejecting the drug on concerns about …
The numbers game: getting quantitative information to patients
November 17, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kadcyla, Les Rose, clinical, myeloma, numbers, numerics
The great physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you can measure something, and express it in numbers, then you know something …
Epic Sciences hires HR head from Prometheus
November 17, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing epic sciences, toni wayne
Epic Sciences has confirmed the appointment of Toni Wayne as the vice president of its human resources department. Wayne has …
EMA in turmoil as top job ‘annulled’
November 17, 2014Sales and Marketing EC, EMA, EU, Europe, Guido Rasi, Rasi, transparency
The future of Guido Rasi, head of Europe’s drugs regulator, is up in the air after a legal ruling which …
Hunt unveils £10 billion NHS savings plan
November 14, 2014Sales and Marketing Cameron, HSCIC, Hunt, Labour, NHS, burnham, digital, savings
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid out efficiency plans that he hopes will save the NHS up to £10 billion …
MSF starts trials of Ebola candidates
November 14, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ebola, MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières, avigan, brincidofovir, favipiravir
Three experimental Ebola therapies will be tested at sites operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in West Africa, according to …
EMA responds to redaction concerns
November 14, 2014Sales and Marketing AbbVie, EMA, Goldacre, Humira, Rasi, adalimumab, redactions, transparency
The EMA has published a response to European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly’s questions about some of its trial data redactions. O’Reilly’s …
Cost of NHS medicines rises
November 14, 2014Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, NICE, PPRS, drugs, hospitals, spend
Hospitals in England are taking an increasing share of the NHS’s bill for drugs approved by NICE, according to a …
Actavis appoints Pepsi head as CFO amid takeover talk
November 14, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, maria moen, pepsi
Dublin-based speciality pharma firm Actavis which is currently in talks to buy Allergan for $60 billion, has hired a chief …
NHS to ‘kitemark’ health-related apps
November 13, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Apple, Hunt, NHS, Samsung, apps, kitemark, wearables
Plans to improve the quality of patient care by introducing a ‘kitemark’ to safely validate healthcare apps have been announced …
Allergan eyeing Actavis buyout
November 13, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, Allergan, Botox, Valeant, acquisition, buyout, merger
Allergan is attempting to block a recent Valeant hostile takeover bid by seeking the rumoured alternative merger deal with Actavis, …
Charity ‘deeply concerned’ on CDF changes
November 13, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, NHS, NICE, breakthrough breast cancer, palframan
A leading cancer charity has warned that a number of key drugs are at risk of being withdrawn from patients …
Laser testing could lead to improved asthma therapies
November 13, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Oxford, asthma, pmdis, pope, stfc
UK scientists have used a laser beam trap to examine how drug particles from asthma inhalers travel through the air …
GE and Takeda make liver pact
November 13, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GE Healthcare, Japan, Takeda, US, liver, nafld, nash
GE Healthcare and Takeda Pharmaceutical have joined forces to develop treatments which target liver conditions including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …
VorroHealth hires VP of Care Innovation
November 13, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing maria moen, vorrohealth
VorroHealth the healthcare clinical tech provider firm has appointed Maria Moen to the newly-created position of vice president of Care Innovation. Moen …
Horizon forms new cancer advisory board
November 12, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, Horizon Discovery, Karin Schmitt, Paul Morrill, biotech, sab
UK biotech Horizon Discovery has formed a new Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for its diagnostics arm to recommend better cancer …
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