Pradaxa gets DVT indication
June 6, 2014Sales and Marketing Boehringer, DVT, Pradaxa, blood, dabigatran etexilate, thinner
Pradaxa has been given approval in Europe to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) just a week …
Bayer announces more changes at the top
June 6, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Dieter Weinand, Otsuka, dekkers, healthcare
US-based president at Japanese drugmaker Otsuka, Dieter Weinand, is to join Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals as the new head of its …
Andy Burnham: NHS needs a ‘reset’
June 6, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, burnham, confederation, reset
The NHS must be ‘reset’ in order to make it into a 21st century health service, according to shadow health …
Skills crisis looming in pharma, says report
June 6, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Jobs, career, life sciences, medcity, pharma, skills
More than half of life sciences employers expect to face a serious shortage of experienced job applicants in the coming …
RSA appoints US business lead


June 6, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing mccabe, molloy, rsa
Life sciences recruitment firm RSA has confirmed the appointment of Elizabeth McCabe as its head of RSA North America. With …
EMA accepts Boehringer IPF drug
June 6, 2014Sales and Marketing Boehringer, EMA, IPF, inpulsis, lung, nintedanib
Boehringer Ingelheim has moved a step closer to getting its investigational treatment nintedanib approved in Europe for a potentially fatal …
Novo cleared in complaints case
June 5, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, Novo Nordisk, PMCPA, complaints
Novo Nordisk has been cleared completely of any wrongdoing over a complaint about three of its employees in relation to …
AbbVie expands Sligo plant
June 5, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, Ireland, Sligo, manufacturing
AbbVie has officially opened its expanded manufacturing plant in Sligo, Ireland. The US company has put €85 million into the …
Kymab makes two senior appointments
June 5, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing arkinstall, clark, kymab
Cambridge-based biopharma firm Kymab has hired Steve 
Arkinstall as a chief scientific officer, and Nigel Clark as VP 
and head …
NHS Confederation: ‘ring-fence NHS funding’
June 5, 2014Sales and Marketing Mid Staffs, NHS Confederation, Rob webster, UK
The boss of the NHS Confederation has challenged political parties to ring-fence NHS funding for the next ten years. Rob …
Robert Francis QC joins Care Quality Commission
June 4, 2014Sales and Marketing Hunt, Mid Staffs, NHS, UK, rew, robert francis
Robert Francis QC is to join health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as a non-executive director. Francis will be …
Apple follows Samsung into e-health
June 4, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Apple, Samsung, digital, healthkit, ios8, wearable
Apple has followed Samsung into the e-health arena by unveiling HealthKit, a new platform that allows users to pool their …
Bayer’s chief executive to step down in 2016
June 4, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Germany, Marijn Dekkers
Marijn Dekkers the chief executive of German pharma firm Bayer has set his departure date to the end of 2016. …
Lilly the latest to open up data
June 4, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Goldacre, NHS, alltrials, data, lilly, transparency, trials
Eli Lilly is to begin sharing its clinical trial data with scientific researchers through a website housing information from several …
New chief scientific officer for Pfizer
June 4, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Morris Birnbaum, Pfizer
Dr Morris Birnbaum has joined Pfizer as its chief scientific officer for cardiovascular and metabolic disease research. Based in Cambridge …
Merck drug shines at ASCO
June 4, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ASCO, Cancer, FDA, MK-3475, Merck, melanoma
Merck has shown off one of its investigative cancer drug’s impressive results in advanced head and neck cancer at ASCO …
Health select committee chairman resigns
June 3, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Conservative, NHS, Stephen Dorrell, health secretary, lankly, reforms
The Conservative MP for Charnwood Stephen Dorrell who has chaired the health select committee since 2010, has resigned. The unexpected …
China manufacturing slips in May
June 3, 2014Manufacturing and Production China, hsbc, manufacturing, pmi
Activity in China’s manufacturing sector slipped slightly in May, according to figures from HSBC, with the bank suggesting that the …
Novartis hires Merck president to lead oncology
June 3, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bruno Strigini, MSD, Merck, Novartis, oncology
Novartis has hired Merck’s president of Europe and Canada Bruno Strigini to be its president of oncology. The role was …
Boehringer lung cancer drug shows survival benefit
June 3, 2014Sales and Marketing ASCO, Boehringer, NSCLC, afatinib, giotrif, lung cancer
A new analysis of two late-stage trials shows that Boehringer drug Giotrif extends overall survival in a large proportion of …
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