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Valeant confirms $1bn deal for ‘female viagra’ creator Sprout

August 20, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Addyi, Sprout, Sprout Pharma, Sprout Pharmaceuticals, Valeant, flibanserin

Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals has confirmed it will pay $1 billion to acquire Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the company behind the female libido …

Lundbeck sheds 1,000 jobs in £284 million restructure

August 20, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Lundbeck, generics, job losses, patents, redundancies, restructure, restructuring

Lundbeck is cutting a thousand jobs globally as part of a restructuring programme to significantly lower its cost and focus …
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Nottingham receives go ahead for new £30m life science facility

August 19, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development BioCity Nottingham, R&D

Hundreds of pharma jobs are expected to be created in Nottingham after the construction of a new £30 million life …

Birmingham opens BioHub for life science start-ups

August 18, 2015 Manufacturing and Production Birmingham, Diagnostics, hubs, life sciences, research hubs, start-ups

A £7 million biomedical laboratory has opened in Birmingham to attract life-science researchers and start-ups.  The BioHub is a new …

New NICE guidelines to tackle antibiotic ‘addiction’

August 18, 2015 Manufacturing and Production AMR, Antibiotics, NICE, antimicrobial resistance, guidance, infections

NICE has published guidance to help health care professionals promote and monitor the sensible use of antibiotics – and support …
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GSK closes Legionella-hit US site

August 14, 2015 Manufacturing and Production GSK, Legionnaire's disease, legionella, manufacturing, production

GSK has temporarily shut down its manufacturing site in North Carolina due to the discovery of the bacteria which causes …

Cost of diabetes treatment in England rises

August 12, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, diabetes, health and social care information centre, prescribing

As diabetes patients increase in numbers the cost of treating the disease in England has increased to more than £800 …
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MedImmune and Inovio collaborate on cancer vaccine

August 11, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development AstraZeneca, HPV, Inovio, MedImmune, cancer vaccines, cervical cancer, oncology

MedImmune has entered into a license agreement and collaboration with Inovio, a biotechnology company developing DNA-based immunotherapies for cancer and …
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Aprecia boosts 3D printing facilities at new US site

August 11, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development

Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, which scored a world-first by becoming the first manufacturer to gain FDA approval for a three-dimensional printed (3DP) …
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Cold chain management and transportation of medicines

August 11, 2015 Manufacturing and Production CEIV, IATA, Transport, cold chain, fly pharma, fly pharma conference, logistics, supply chain, transportation, vaccines

Riekert Bruinink, a member of the guideline drafting committee and the Dutch health inspectorate, has a very simple explanation of …
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US to lead global contract manufacturing market by 2020

August 11, 2015 Manufacturing and Production APIs, United States, manufacturing, production

The global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing market was worth $58 billion in 2014 and is projected to reach $84 billion in 2020, according to a …
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt

Price tags on medicine packs a “headline grabbing gimmick”

August 7, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Drug pricing, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, adherence, compliance

Plans to include a price tag on prescription medicines in England worth more than £20 have been dismissed as a …

Pfizer and Flynn rapped for overcharging on anti-epilepsy drug

August 6, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing CMA, Drug pricing, Flynn Pharma, Pfizer, competitions markets authority, epilepsy, generics, phenytoin, pricing

Pharma firms Pfizer and Flynn Pharma have been accused by the UK’s competition watchdog of charging ‘excessive and unfair’ prices …
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AstraZeneca buys rights to Heptares experimental cancer treatment

August 6, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, HTL-1071, immuno-oncology

AstraZeneca has entered into a licensing agreement with Heptares for the global rights to the experimental cancer treatment HTL-1071. The …
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First 3D-printed drug approved by FDA

August 4, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development 3d printing, FDA, manufacturing, production

The world of medicine saw a new pharma milestone this week, with the first approval by the FDA of a …
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