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GSK to bring pharma plant in Sri Lanka online

April 24, 2012
Manufacturing and Production BMS, GSK. Sri-Lanka, manufacturing and production

GlaxoSmithKline is due to open a newly-built manufacturing facility in Sri Lanka this week that is said to be the …

Amylin dismisses BMS acquisition deal

March 30, 2012
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Amylin, BMS, Bydureon, diabetes, lilly

Amylin Pharmaceuticals has rebuffed a $3.5 billion unsolicited takeover bid from Bristol-Myers Squibb, according to reports. Shares in Amylin rose …

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Sanofi sets up cholesterol drug showdown with Amgen

March 27, 2012
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Amgen, BMS, LDL, Lipitor, Merck, Regeneron, Sanofi

Sanofi and Amgen have posted results for their new injectable cholesterol drugs within 24 hours of each other.  Both drugs …

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Roche’s melanoma pill launched in UK

March 14, 2012
Sales and Marketing BMS, CDF, NICE, Roche, Yervoy, Zelboraf

Roche’s Zelboraf has been launched in the UK to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer.  Zelboraf (vemurafenib) is the …

Bristol-Myers Squibb elects Gerald Storch to board of directors

January 26, 2012
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Gerald Storch

Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced that its board has elected Gerald Storch to serve as a member of the audit committee, …

AZ and BMS diabetes drug needs more data

January 20, 2012
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, BMS, FDA approvals, diabetes

AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb must supply more data on their diabetes treatment dapagliflozin, the FDA says.Currently being developed as monotherapy, …

Former Bristol-Myers Squibb man becomes head of Savient Europe

January 18, 2012
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Savient

Savient Pharmaceuticals has appointed David Veitch as the new president of its European division. Veitch joins the specialist biopharma firm …

AstraZeneca looks for new partners to bolster pipeline

January 16, 2012
Business Services, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, BMS

AstraZeneca has used a recent healthcare conference in San Francisco to call for new drug development partners. Speaking at the …

NICE says yes to Tasigna for resistant disease

January 13, 2012
Sales and Marketing BMS, Glivec, NICE, Novartis, Tasigna

NICE is recommending Novartis’ Tasigna for chronic myeloid leukaemia patients that can no longer use Glivec. In final guidance it …

BMS to buy hep C firm Inhibitex for $2.5 billion

January 9, 2012
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Inhibitex, hep C

Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire virology specialist Inhibitex for $2.5 billion, expanding its infectious disease portfolio. Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire the …

BMS in cholesterol alliance with China’s Simcere

December 16, 2011
Sales and Marketing BMS, CETP inhibitor, Simcere, cardiovascular, emerging markets

Bristol-Myers Squibb is to co-develop a new compound to treat cardiovascular disease with Chinese firm Simcere Pharmaceutical Group. The companies, …

Stroke crisis to hit UK unless government acts, warns report

December 5, 2011
Sales and Marketing BMS, Pfizer, Pradaxa, UK, stroke

Major improvements are needed in the treatment of atrial fibrillation to avoid a UK stroke epidemic, according to a new …

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NICE okays Eliquis for blood clots after surgery

November 25, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Eliquis, NICE, Pfizer

NICE is recommending Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Eliquis for blood clots after surgery. Specifically, NICE has said that Eliquis (apixaban) …

Eliquis fails in head-to-head study against Lovenox

November 14, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMS, Eliquis, Lovenox, Pfizer

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer have suffered a setback in their attempts to cement Eliquis’ place in the $20 billion market …

Aslan licences promising cancer drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb

November 7, 2011
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Aslan, BMS, Cancer

Bristol-Myers Squibb has licensed one of its investigational oncology compounds, for the treatment of multiple solid tumours, to Singapore-based Aslan …

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