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New CMO hops onto Bicycle Therapeutics

September 26, 2017
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Bicycle Therapeutics, GSK, Pfizer, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Bicycle Therapeutics has moved to appoint industry veteran, Maria Koehler, to the position of Chief Medical Officer at the company. …

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FDA pointedly rejects Intellipharma’s opioid painkiller

September 26, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FDA, Intellipharma, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

The FDA has been very public in its stance that it will look to gain the upper hand in bringing …

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Pangea X: the largest coordinated operation against counterfeit drugs

September 26, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Europol, FDA, biotech, drugs, interpol, pharma, pharmaceutical

Operation Pangea X represents an anniversary, of sorts – as it stands as the 10th year of operations by Interpol …

News

Pfizer sets up its own biotech to develop rejected drugs

September 26, 2017
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Pfizer, SpringWorks Therapeutics, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Pfizer has moved to set up an entirely independent company to develop four of its own clinical-stage drug candidates. The …

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Allergan posts disappointing data in NASH

September 25, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Allergan, biotech, drugs, nash, pharma, pharmaceutical

It was only last year that Allergan decided to cough up $1.7 billion to acquire Tobira Therapeutics, with the main …

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‘Super malaria’ sweeps South East Asia

September 25, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing biotech, drug resistance, drug-resistance, drugs, malaria, pharma, pharmaceutical

There has long been concern over cases of drug-resistant malaria emerging in Asia and now it has been revealed that …

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FDA rejects J&J’s treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

September 25, 2017
Sales and Marketing Johnson & Johnson, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical, sirukumab

Perhaps unsurprisingly, after the FDA’s advisory committee had voted 12-1 against approval of Johnson & Johnson’s drug, the FDA returned …

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Alnylam soars on likely first RNAi treatment approval

September 22, 2017
Medical Communications, Research and Development Alynylam, Sanofi, biotech, drugs, patisran, pharma, pharmaceutical

Alnylam has been plugging away in the RNAi-based treatment area for 15 years and, finally, has something to show for …

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19 deaths from liver drug causes Intercept shares to tumble

September 22, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Ocliva, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Intercept Pharmaceuticals had sparked major concerns over its drug, Ocaliva, after it revealed that 10 people had died as a …

News

New therapy offers triple threat to HIV virus

September 22, 2017
Medical Communications, Research and Development HIV, Sanofi, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Sanofi and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have combined to create a potential HIV therapy that was shown to …

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Witty, Ex-CEO of GSK, keeps busy with two new roles in two days

September 21, 2017
Medical Communications : Pharma, Andrew Witty, GSK, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

It was always unlikely that Andrew Witty, former CEO of GSK, would take his ‘retirement’ from the company literally, but …

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Report finds variation in quality of care in GP practices across England

September 21, 2017
Medical Communications : Pharma, England, GP, NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Depending on your interpretation of results from the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) recent report on the standard of care provided …

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Bayer pulls plug on sterilisation device after numerous complaints

September 21, 2017
Sales and Marketing Bayer, Essure, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

Bayer has stopped the commercial sale of a sterilisation device in all countries, except the US, after reports that it …

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Gates Foundation invest in Immunocore, warning of infectious disease threat

September 20, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, biotech, drugs, infectious diseases, pharma, pharmaceutical

It has been announced that the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation will invest up to $40 million in UK-based Immunocore …

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BMS’ Opdivo to finally be made available to lung cancer patients in the UK

September 20, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bristol-Myers Squibb, NICE, biotech, drugs, opdivo, pharma, pharmaceutical

It is two and a half years since patients with lung cancer in the US were able to receive Bristol-Myers …

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