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MyHeart Counts ResearchKit app

First Apple ResearchKit app launches in the UK

August 7, 2015 Medical Communications Apple, clinical trial, heart disease, researchkit, strokes

The first ResearchKit app to be made available to users outside of the US has launched in the UK. The …
News
bedrock

Bedrock Healthcare Communications makes new hires

August 6, 2015 Medical Communications Bedrock Healthcare Communications

Bedrock Healthcare Communications has made several new additions to the team.Sam Simpson joins as account director, Francesca Worthington as account …
Appointment
Lee Heeson

Working Life: Celgene’s Lee Heeson

August 3, 2015 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Celgene, Lee Heeson

How did you find your way into your current role?My career has progressed from ‘carrying the bag’ for GlaxoSmithKline in …
Feature
Roche building

Eleven companies accused in Romanian corruption probe

August 3, 2015 Business Services, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing China, Daily Telegraph, GSK, Roche, Romania, bribery, corruption

GSK and Roche are among eleven pharma firms being investigated for paying bribes to doctors in Romania to prescribe drugs. …
News
Doctor online

UK patients ‘self-diagnose rather than visit GP’

July 31, 2015 Medical Communications GP, General Practice, internet

One in five people in the UK admit to self-diagnosing illnesses rather than making a doctor’s appointment. Research published in …
News
ABPI sign

ABPI consulting on Code of Conduct changes

July 31, 2015 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI Code, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, code of conduct

The division of the ABPI that sets rules governing industry behaviour is consulting on changes to reflect new rules on …
News
healthcare tech

Doctors ‘distrust apps developed by pharma’ – survey

July 31, 2015 Medical Communications France, GPs, Germany, Healthcare Technologies, UK, chronic disease, disease management, healthcare tech

A study of GPs in three European countries show GPs feel there is a role for healthcare technologies in disease …
News
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Novartis Foundation confirms Dr Joerg Reinhard as new chairman

July 27, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Dr Joerg Reinhardt, Novartis

The Novartis Foundation has confirmed several new members of its board of trustees, including a new chairman in Dr Joerg …
Appointment
Vaccination

EMA backs GSK’s malaria vaccine for use in Africa

July 24, 2015 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CHMP, Committee for Medicinal Products for Human USE, EMA, European Medicines Agency, GSK, WHO, malaria, world health organization

GSK has taken a significant step forward toward being the first company to bring a malaria vaccine to market, after …
News
EMA

EMA in push for more paediatric drug trials

July 24, 2015 Medical Communications, Research and Development EMA, European Medicines Agency, clinical trials, drug development, paediatrics

The European Medicines Agency has relaxed some of its rules around the development of drugs in children, in order to …
News
NHS sign

Cancer Drugs Fund assessment to be handed over to NICE

July 22, 2015 Medical Communications, Research and Development CDF, Cancer, Cancer Drugs Fund, NHS, NHS England, NHSE, NICE, cost effectiveness, cost-effectiveness

NICE will oversee the evaluation of Cancer Drugs Fund treatments in future, under new plans due for consultation by NHS …
News
Janssen image

European Imbruvica approval for Janssen

July 20, 2015 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing B-cell lymphoma, EC, European Commission, Janssen, Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia, imbruvica, rare cancer

Janssen has received final European sign-off for its oncology treatment Imbruvica (ibrutinib) as a treatment option for adult patients with …
News
Chugai

Chugai falls foul of ABPI code for close consultant relationship

July 17, 2015 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI Code, Chugai, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority

Bosses at Chugai have been rapped by the industry’s code of practice regulator, after a senior manager failed to declare …
News
AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca receives US approval for Iressa

July 16, 2015 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, FDA, Iressa, lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer

AstraZeneca’s lung cancer therapy Iressa has been approved by the FDA – four years after the company pulled it from the …
News
ABPI

UK pharma made £41 million in doctor payments

July 16, 2015 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, ABPI Code, doctor payments

The pharma industry made £41m in payments to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals in the UK in 2014, the …
News
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