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The numbers game: getting quantitative information to patients

November 17, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kadcyla, Les Rose, clinical, myeloma, numbers, numerics

The great physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you can measure something, and express it in numbers, then you know something …
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Epic Sciences hires HR head from Prometheus

November 17, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing epic sciences, toni wayne

Epic Sciences has confirmed the appointment of Toni Wayne as the vice president of its human resources department. Wayne has …
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MSF starts trials of Ebola candidates

November 14, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ebola, MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières, avigan, brincidofovir, favipiravir

Three experimental Ebola therapies will be tested at sites operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in West Africa, according to …
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Actavis appoints Pepsi head as CFO amid takeover talk

November 14, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, maria moen, pepsi

Dublin-based speciality pharma firm Actavis which is currently in talks to buy Allergan for $60 billion, has hired a chief …
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Allergan eyeing Actavis buyout

November 13, 2014 Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, Allergan, Botox, Valeant, acquisition, buyout, merger

Allergan is attempting to block a recent Valeant hostile takeover bid by seeking the rumoured alternative merger deal with Actavis, …
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Charity ‘deeply concerned’ on CDF changes

November 13, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, NHS, NICE, breakthrough breast cancer, palframan

A leading cancer charity has warned that a number of key drugs are at risk of being withdrawn from patients …
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Laser testing could lead to improved asthma therapies

November 13, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Oxford, asthma, pmdis, pope, stfc

UK scientists have used a laser beam trap to examine how drug particles from asthma inhalers travel through the air …
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GE and Takeda make liver pact

November 13, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GE Healthcare, Japan, Takeda, US, liver, nafld, nash

GE Healthcare and Takeda Pharmaceutical have joined forces to develop treatments which target liver conditions including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …
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VorroHealth hires VP of Care Innovation

November 13, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing maria moen, vorrohealth

VorroHealth the healthcare clinical tech provider firm has appointed Maria Moen to the newly-created position of vice president of Care Innovation. Moen …
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Horizon forms new cancer advisory board

November 12, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, Horizon Discovery, Karin Schmitt, Paul Morrill, biotech, sab

UK biotech Horizon Discovery has formed a new Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for its diagnostics arm to recommend better cancer …
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Dendreon files for bankruptcy

November 12, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Dendreon, Provenge, awick, delaware, johnson, nj

Dendreon Corporation, the troubled manufacturer of high-cost cancer vaccine Provenge, has filed for bankruptcy as a prelude to restructuring its …
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Theorem appoints two vice presidents

November 12, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Angela Weston, Kathryn Bohannon, theorem

Contract research organisation Theorem has named Kathryn Bohannon as vice president of its biopharma development unit, and Angela Weston as …
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Eisai: Fycompa decision ‘deeply regrettable’

November 11, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Eisai, Fycompa, Germany, epilepsy, gba, perampanel

Eisai has lashed out at a major German health assessment body, calling its stance on first-in-class epilepsy treatment Fycompa ‘deeply …
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inVentiv Health president joins from eBay

November 11, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing inVentiv Health, jeff wilks

Life sciences services company inVentiv Health has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Wilks as the president of its advertising businesses. …
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BMS claims advance with hepatitis C regimen

November 10, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Gilead, HCV, dcv-trio, hep C, hepatitis C, liver, sovaldi

Bristol-Myers Squibb has reported data for its hepatitis C virus cocktail that it says outperforms even newer all-oral therapies in …
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