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Drug giants team up for Alzheimer’s

February 5, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Accelerating Medicines Partnership, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s, GSK, Merck, National Institutes of Health, Pfizer

The top US medical research agency has brought together a ‘dream team’ of big pharma partners to help battle against …

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Merck KGaA head jumping ship to Lanxess

January 29, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Merck, Merck KGaA, lanxess, zachert

Merck KGaA’s chief financial officer Matthias Zachert is exiting the firm in order to fulfill a chief executive appointment at …

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Merck recalls Liptruzet on packaging defects

January 20, 2014
Manufacturing and Production FDA, Merck, US, liptruzet, recall

Merck & Co has been forced to undertake a massive recall of its combination cholesterol-lowering drug Liptruzet in the US …

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Reprieve for Merck’s vorapaxar

January 16, 2014
Sales and Marketing FDA, Merck, heart, vorapaxar

An FDA committee has voted that Merck’s troubled heart drug vorapaxar should be approved by the US regulator. The advisory …

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Merck, Reckitt Benckiser fined by French watchdog

December 20, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing FCA, Merck, Reckitt Benckiser, generics, subutex

Merck & Co and Reckitt Benckiser have collectively been fined millions of euros by French authorities over their role in …

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Merck develops diabetes game

December 17, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Gamification, Merck, ayogo, diabetes, type 2

Merck has announced it is working with digital health specialist Ayogo to develop a new game aimed at helping type …

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UK government doubles dementia funding

December 11, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Cameron, Merck, Obama, dementia

UK prime minister David Cameron has announced that the government is to increase funding research into dementia, spending £52 million …

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Pfizer cuts manufacturing again with plant closure

December 9, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Ireland, Merck, Pfizer, Taylor, facility

A packaging plant in Ireland is the latest to come into the cross-hairs of the people at Pfizer tasked with …

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Merck to close Irish plant with loss of 570 jobs

December 2, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Ireland, MSD, Merck, job cuts, swords

Merck & Co has said it plans to close down a facility in Ireland with the loss of around 570 …

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GSK makes £425 million Aspen sale

November 21, 2013
Sales and Marketing GSK, Merck, South Africa, aspen

GlaxoSmithKline has raised £425 million with the sale of 28.2 million shares that it has in Africa’s biggest drugmaker as …

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Merck’s melanoma vaccine impresses

November 19, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MK-3475, Merck, Roche, melanoma

Merck has posted impressive results for its new melanoma vaccine MK-3475 as it looks to vie for a place in …

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Merck and J&J invest in Chinese manufacturing

November 18, 2013
Manufacturing and Production J&J, JJ, Merck, manufacturing

Merck KGaA and Johnson & Johnson have both announced new manufacturing projects in China, suggesting investigations into corruption by the …

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Roche poised to get even bigger in biomanufacturing

October 15, 2013
Manufacturing and Production Jobs, Merck, Roche, cuts

Roche plans to invest a massive 800 million Swiss francs ($882m) over the next five years to increase manufacturing capacity …

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Merck axes 8,500 more jobs

October 2, 2013
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Jobs, Merck, R&D, cuts

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Merck makes big changes at the top

October 1, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Merck, Merck Serono

Merck has reshuffled its leadership as Belén Garijo is appointed to be its new president and chief executive of Merck …

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