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Targacept admits failure in Alzheimer’s trial

July 15, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Aricept, Pfizer, TC-173, Targacept

Targacept is dropping a once promising Alzheimer’s drug from further clinical trials after it failed to beat Pfizer’s Aricept (donepezil) …
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Baxter takes R&D head from Merck Serono

July 15, 2014 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Merck Serono, baxter, john orloff

Baxter International has appointed Dr John Orloff as its vice president and global head of R&D development for Baxter BioScience. …
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Roche combination drug for melanoma impresses

July 14, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Roche, Yervoy, braf, mekinist. MEK, melanoma

Roche’s investigational melanoma drug cobimetinib has helped late-stage patients live longer when used in combination with its established skin cancer …
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Working Life: Celgene’s Rob Moore

July 14, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Celgene, Working Life, rob moore

How did you find your way into your current role? I joined the pharmaceutical industry almost 20 years ago with …
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Two hires at Cello Health Communications

July 14, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cello, cello health, davies, yates

Healthcare comms agency Cello Health Communications has made two senior appointments at its London office. Anthea Davies (pictured) joins the …
Appointment

Bayer in Oxford tie-up

July 11, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Oxford, endometriosis, university

Bayer HealthCare and the UK’s University of Oxford have signed an agreement to look for new treatments for two common …
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QRxPharma announces several resignations

July 11, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Campbell, PACE, QRxPharma, farrell, quinn

Australian pharma development firm QRxPharma has confirmed that its chairman Dr Peter Farrell and director Dr Gary Pace have resigned. …
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EMA delays trial transparency – again

July 10, 2014 Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EMA, Goldacre, Rasi, alltrials, clinical trials, transparency

The European Medicines Agency has once again said that it is to delay the launch of its new clinical trial …
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Glide Pharma makes two senior hires

July 10, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Glide Pharma, Richard Bungay, Tony Mills

Oxford-based development and device firm Glide Pharma has appointed Richard Bungay as its chief financial officer (CFO) and Dr Tony …
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Boehringer blood cancer drug scores in Phase II

July 9, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, blood, giotrif, leukaemia, volasertib

Less than a year after securing its first cancer drug on the market with Giotrif, Boehringer has taken another decisive …
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Clark Health Communications hires account director

July 9, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Clark Health Communications, chc, newman

Clark Health Communications (CHC) has recruited account director Sarah Newman as its first full-time employee to help manage the agency’s …
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Cameron’s antibiotics plan not enough

July 8, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, BBC, NHS, UK, david cameron, governement

UK prime minister David Cameron’s reaction to antibiotic resistance is not urgent enough and doctors are continuing to prescribe antibiotics …
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World’s first anti-PD-1 therapy approved

July 8, 2014 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Cancer, melanoma, nivolumab, ono, opdivo

Ono Pharmaceutical has been given the world’s first licence for a new type of cancer treatment on which many researchers’ …
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New appointments at NHS England

July 8, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing DoH, NHS Commissioning, NHS England, stevens

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has confirmed a number of senior appointments to the organisation. Dr Mahiben Maruthappu has …
Appointment
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New director for Cello Health Insight

July 8, 2014 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cello, Kantar Health, marie innes

Healthcare market research agency Cello Health Insight has appointed Marie Innes as director. Based in the firm’s London head office …
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