SHL to exhibit at the 2014 PDA Conference in California, USA
August 15, 2014Sales and Marketing auto injector, pda 2014, shl event, shl pda 2014
The growth of the auto injector industry has been driven largely in part by the need to improve patient compliance …
InterMune stock jumps on suitor claims
August 14, 2014Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Esbriet, FDA, GSK, IPF, InterMune
Riding high of the success of its new lung drug Esbriet, InterMune has become the focus of some serious takeover …
Vertex ditches its once-stellar hep C drug
August 14, 2014Sales and Marketing Gilead, Incivek, Vertex, hep C, sovaldi
Vertex will stop selling its once-blockbuster hepatitis C drug in the US this autumn after being crushed by new therapies. …
Amgen cancer drug fails key test
August 14, 2014Sales and Marketing Amgen, Cancer, Kyprolis, myeloma
Amgen’s new rare cancer drug has failed in a late-stage trial just a year after the US biotech spent $10.4 …
New chief executive for Medivir
August 14, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Medivir, Niklas Prager
Niklas Prager has been named as the new president and chief executive of Sweden-based pharma firm Medivir. Starting in September, …
Pharma publisher confirms two hires
August 13, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Samedan, george underwood, pharmafile. pharmafocus, tom robinson
Samedan Pharmaceutical Publishers has appointed two editorial and production assistants to join Pharmafile and Pharmafocus. Tom Robinson (pictured right) joins Pharmafile …
NHS in Scotland deploys mobile healthcare
August 13, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, Safe Patient Systems, Scotland, digital, nhs scotland, tablets
Mobile healthcare firm Safe Patient Systems is partnering with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) to provide mobile healthcare services …
Pfizer teams up with Google-backed 23andMe
August 13, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing 23andME, Crohn’s disease, Pfizer, google, ulcerative colitis
Pfizer and genetics testing firm 23andMe have come together in a research pact aimed at finding the genetic cause of …
Sanofi signs $925 million inhaled insulin deal
August 13, 2014Sales and Marketing Afrezza, French, Sanofi, diabetes, fad, insulin
Sanofi could pay out as much as $925 million for global rights to the world’s only approved inhaled insulin just …
Cancer Research UK appeals for clarity on Wikipedia
August 13, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Cancer Research UK, wikimania, wikipedia
Cancer Research UK is calling upon the medical community to become more involved with Wikipedia to ensure better accuracy of …
Untested Ebola drugs can be used in Africa
August 13, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Ebola, Siga Technologies, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, WHO, world health organization, zmapp
The World Health Organization will allow untested treatments for Ebola to be used in West Africa as the death toll …
Cost of diabetes treatment soars in England
August 13, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Lantus, NHS, Sanofi, diabetes
The NHS spent more than £2.2 million on average every day over the last financial year on diabetes medicines, according …
GSK now faces bribery allegations in Syria
August 13, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing China, GSK, bribery
GlaxoSmithKline faces fresh allegations that it bribed Syrian doctors and officials to boost sales of its medicines in what is …
Spectrum appoints two medical writers
August 13, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Dominique Helburg, Nuša Farič, Spectrum
UK Healthcare consultancy firm Spectrum Regulatory Solutions has appointed two new medical writers to further expand its team. Prior to …
Nicox makes changes to board
August 13, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Adrienne Graves, Luzi von Bidder, NicOx
French ophthalmic firm Nicox has confirmed that Dr Adrienne Graves and Luzi von Bidder will be joining its board of …
GSK Ebola vaccine underway
August 11, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, Vaccine, WHO, johnson
Clinical trials of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus will begin soon according to its developers GlaxoSmithKline. The …
Synta appoints Sanofi president as chief executive
August 11, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi, Synta, anne whitaker
US biopharma firm Synta Pharmaceuticals has confirmed that Anne Whitaker is joining the company as president and chief executive. Whitaker …
GSK investigator jailed by Chinese police
August 8, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing China, GSK, Peter Humprhey
A private investigator hired by GlaxoSmithKline to look into the secret recording of a sex tape of its China boss …
Digital: bridging the gap between doctor, pharma and patient
August 8, 2014Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing digital, doctors, pm society, social media
Digital technology is moving on apace, but is the pharma industry keeping up and just what are the opportunities to …
Cancer Research UK and Astellas announce partnership
August 8, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Astellas, CRUK, Canncer, Pancreatic cancer
Cancer Research UK and its commercial arm, Cancer Research Technology (CRT) have announced they are joining forces with Astellas in …
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