Lipitor competition holds Pfizer back
July 31, 2013Sales and Marketing Lipitor, Pfizer, Prevnar, Q2
Pfizer’s revenues in the second quarter of 2013 fell 7% year-on-year, in part due to the loss of patent in …
Merck sees sales dip
July 31, 2013Sales and Marketing Merck, Q2, Singulair, sales
A catastrophic decline in sales of asthma medicine Singulair is among the key reasons why Merck’s pharma revenue fell 12% …
UK life sciences gains £93 million backing
July 31, 2013Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BIA, DMD, life sciences
The UK life sciences sector has been given a new £93.2 million package of support by the government to help …
MHRA appoints three directors to its Board
July 31, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing DoH, MHRA
The Department of Health has announced that three new non-executive directors are joining the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. …
BMS taps Samsung for antibody manufacturing
July 30, 2013Manufacturing and Production BMS, Samsung, antibody
Bristol-Myers Squibb has given signed a 10-year contract with South Korea’s Samsung BioLogics for the manufacture of one of its …
Adderall hits Shire sales
July 30, 2013Sales and Marketing Adderall, Shire, Vyvanse, ldx
Falling sales of Adderall XR have hit Shire in the second quarter of the year, with the ADHD drug dropping …
January deadline for Pfizer restructure
July 30, 2013Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Pfizer, patent, restructure
Pfizer is to restructure operations from January 2014 in a bid to make its business more responsive to patient and …
Nearly all UK men survive testicular cancer
July 30, 2013Research and Development, Sales and Marketing
Survival for testicular cancer has risen by almost 30% in the last 40 years, with nearly all men now beating …
Perrigo pays $8.6 billion for Elan
July 30, 2013Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Elan, Perrigo, Tysabri
Generics firm Perrigo has snapped up Ireland-based Elan in a multi-billion dollar deal, ending a bitter takeover battle that has …
Aesica appoints Chris Gowland to the Board
July 30, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Aesica, Chris Gowland
Contract development and manufacturing organisation Aesica has appointed Chris Gowland to the newly formed position of chief operating officer. As …
FDA clarifies import rules for ‘pre-launch’ medicines
July 29, 2013Manufacturing and Production Draft Guidance, FDA, pre launch, pre-launch
New draft guidance on the import of unapproved medicines in anticipation of approval in the US has been published by …
Patients and profits – time for new priorities
July 29, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing China, McConaghie, andrew, pharma, profits
Pharmaceutical journalists don’t retire, they just go off patent. Well, I’m not retiring as such, but after ten years as …
EMA: no cancer risk from GLP-1s
July 29, 2013Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, EMA, GLP-1s
One of the European Medicines Agency’s key advisory groups has decided that concerns over an increased cancer risk with some …
AZ and BMS go for second Forxiga submission
July 29, 2013Sales and Marketing AZ, BMS, FDA, Forxiga
AstraZeneca and partner Bristol-Myers Squibb have resubmitted their diabetes drug Forxiga to the FDA 18 months after it was rejected …
Boehringer nears European approval for first cancer drug
July 29, 2013Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Cancer, FDA, afatinib
Boehringer’s first cancer drug is just months away from being approved in Europe after a committee for the EMA gave …
PCI hires associate director of Clinical Trials
July 29, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing
Pharma packaging and clinical trials services firm PCI has appointed Tim Roberts as an associate director of Clinical Trials.The changes …
Contract research news in brief
July 26, 2013Research and Development Ascendancy Healthcare, CRO Solutions, Clinical Research Advantage, ResearchDx, SPS Pharma Services, VxP Pharma
Quintiles wins multi-year contract in China, CRO Solutions sets up niche subsidiary and CRA buys CNS unit, plus relocations for …
Dementia project pays out £50 million
July 26, 2013Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Jeremy Hunt, dementia
Over a hundred hospitals and care homes across England have been awarded a share of a £50million fund to help …
Sharp fall in sales for Bristol-Myers Squibb
July 26, 2013Sales and Marketing Avapro, BMS, Plavix, Q2
Bristol-Myers Squibb has seen a fall in sales over the past three months as it struggles with major patent losses. …
Lilly beats estimates with solid Q2 performance
July 26, 2013Sales and Marketing Q2, cymbalta, lilly, zyprexa
Lilly posted a healthy set of financials at the end of July as the company looks to keep its growth …
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