Healthcare at Home names interim chief
June 13, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing healthcare at home, natalie douglas
Clinical services firm Healthcare at Home has appointed Natalie Douglas as interim chief executive, as Mike Gordon becomes non-executive chairman. …
AbbVie highlights treatment adherence
June 12, 2014Sales and Marketing ALIGN, AbbVie, Abbott, Crohn’s disease, TNF, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, treatment, ulcerative colitis
Patients with inflammatory diseases tend to be better at following their treatment regimes with TNF inhibitors rather than other medicines, …
AstraZeneca signs $240m asthma deal with UK biotech
June 12, 2014Sales and Marketing AZ, AstraZeneca, COPD, SNG001, Synairgen
UK-based Synairgen has signed a global licence agreement with fellow British native AstraZeneca for its experimental lung drug SNG001. The …
Lonza adds executive committee member
June 12, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Lonza, sven Abend
Sven Abend is joining Swiss chemicals and biotech giant Lonza to serve on its executive committee. From July Abend will …
Novo Nordisk outlines hiring plans
June 12, 2014Sales and Marketing Denmark, Novo Nordisk, diabetes, haemostasis, pharma
Novo Nordisk has outlined ambitious plans for the medium-term, saying it will look to hire 6,000 staff in its native …
Bristol-Myers Squibb hires new general manager




June 11, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amadou Diarra, BMS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johanna Mercier
Johanna Mercier has been appointed as Bristol-Myers Squibb’s general manager for the UK and Ireland. The appointment of Mercier who …
Allergan rejects Valeant – again
June 11, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Allergan, Botox, Valeant, pershing, pharma
Allergan and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International are continuing their stately dance around one another – and in the latest move the …
Researchers question ‘bias’ NICE on statins
June 11, 2014Sales and Marketing Drug pricing, Haslam, NHS, NICE, statins
Doctors are warning that NICE’s desire to increase prescriptions of statins in England is based on pharma-funded research that ignores …
Cello hires digital director from YouGov
June 11, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cello, brilot, yougov
Healthcare market research agency Cello Health Insight has appointed a new digital director in Dan Brilot. Brilot is to work …
MediCity hub moves forward
June 11, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, BioCity, alderley park, johnson, medcity, medicity
Nine new businesses have signed tenancy agreements at Nottingham’s MediCity, bringing to 20 the number of companies which have been …
InterMune drops EMA lawsuit over data release
June 10, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, EU, Esbriet, Goldacre, InterMune, alltrials, lung
InterMune has ended a year-long legal spat with the European Medicines Agency over the potential release of data for its …
Merck buys Idenix
June 10, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing HCV, IDX21437, IDX21459, Merck, hep C, idenix
Merck is to improve its pipeline of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments by splashing out $3.85 billion on biopharma firm …
Dendreon chief resigns from struggling firm
June 10, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Dendreon, John Johnson, Provenge, Vaccine, Watson, prostate
Chief executive of Dendreon John Johnson is to step down in the summer amid falling sales of the company’s key …
Sovaldi hurdles first drug pricing barrier
June 10, 2014Sales and Marketing Gilead, SMC, Scotland, hep C, sofosbuvir, sovaldi
Scotland’s NHS will pay for Gilead’s new hepatitis C pill Sovaldi despite rising concern over its high cost. The Scottish …
Langland hires business unit director
June 10, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Langland, Michael Le Brocq
Healthcare advertising agency Langland has appointed Michael Le Brocq as business unit director for its Ethical division. Also joining the …
Lilly app targets depression
June 10, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Android, depression, iphone, lilly, talking progress
Eli Lilly has launched a free mobile app for Android and iPhone handsets which aims to support patients who suffer …
Child flu pilot ‘encouraging’
June 9, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing UK, Vaccine, chid, children, flu, government, phd
Figures from the child flu vaccine pilot launched last year by Public Health England (PHE) are encouraging, the government says. …
Pharma, digital and patients: a healthy concoction?
June 9, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing adams, digital, epatient, pharma
A young woman sits stunned in an oncologist’s office, unsure of where to look or how to react to the …
IDEA Pharma appoints account manager
June 9, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing idea, ritacco
IDEA Pharma has hired Rick Ritacco as an account manager to join its New York practice working with the company’s …
Penn Pharma starts operations
June 9, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing API, Penn Pharma, Wales, manufacturing, south
Penn Pharma has opened its expanded facility in South Wales, after a £3 million investment which will allow it to …
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