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Charles River cuts forecasts as profits slump

August 11, 2009 Research and Development Charles River, preclinical

Contract preclinical testing specialist Charles River Laboratories saw its second-quarter sales drop 12.5% to $308 million as demand from pharmaceutical …

Sanofi submits FDA application for swine flu vaccine

August 10, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Sanofi-Aventis, h1n1

Sanofi Pasteur has filed with US regulators a supplemental license application for its vaccine to protect against the H1N1 pandemic …

Doubts about funding for ‘Innovation Pass’

August 10, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, NICE

The new fast-tracking system announced to help accelerate uptake of innovative new treatments in the UK, could be held back …

TNF blockers must carry children’s cancer warning

August 7, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing FDA, RA, TNF

The FDA has ruled that TNF blocker drugs should carry new warnings of the increased risk of certain cancers for …

Vernalis and GSK sign risk-sharing deal

August 7, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Deals, GSK, Vernalis

Vernalis and GlaxoSmithKline have joined forces to work on a cancer treatment in a deal which could be worth more …

Pfizer agrees price cut in Clinton deal

August 7, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing HIV, Pfizer, generics

Former US President Bill Clinton has brokered major new deals with Pfizer and Mylan to cut the price of tuberculosis …

Quintiles opens Ghana office

August 7, 2009 Research and Development Africa, Quintiles

Quintiles has opened a new office in Accra, Ghana, which it says will increase capacity to manage clinical studies for …
GSKfluvaccine

Racing to save lives and fighting the PR battle

August 6, 2009 Medical Communications, Research and Development Vaccine, clinical trials, public relations

Vaccine companies are working round the clock to develop and manufacture a vaccine for the H1N1 pandemic flu, and are …

Vasella targeted by animal rights activists

August 6, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Animal tests, Novartis, Vasella

Animal rights activists are believed to be behind two attacks on Novartis chief executive Daniel Vasella. The first attack came …

Afinitor approved in EU

August 6, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Afinitor, Cancer, Europe, Novartis

Novartis’ new kidney cancer drug Afinitor (everolimus) has been approved in the EU for use when products such as Sutent …

US approval for Onglyza

August 6, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AZ, BMA, diabetes

Adult type II diabetes treatment Onglyza has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Co-marketed by AstraZeneca and …

Kennedy and Drayson: parallel plans to boost UK’s innovation agenda

August 5, 2009 Research and Development NICE, healthcare

1: The Office of Life Science’s ‘Blueprint’The first to be launched was the ‘Blueprint’ – a new strategic vision aiming …

Boehringer’s lung cancer candidate enters phase III

August 5, 2009 Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Boehringer, Cancer

Boehringer Ingelheim is to enter phase III studies with a candidate to treat a subset of patients with non-small cell …

ICR conference moves to London

August 4, 2009 Business Services, Research and Development Conference, ICR

The Institute of Clinical Research (ICR) is to hold its next annual spring conference and exhibition on 19-20 April at …
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