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Indivior reaches settlement with Mylan over patent dispute

September 25, 2017
Sales and Marketing Mylan, indivior, patent, pharma, pharmaceutical, suboxone

Indivior has ended a patent dispute with Mylan concerning its heroin addiction therapy Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) sublingual film by …

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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 …

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NICE recommends Bayer’s Eylea for myopic chorodial neovascularisation

September 22, 2017
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Eylea, NICE, pharma, pharmaceutical

Bayer has revealed that UK drug regulator NICE has given its final recommendation on blockbuster eye drug Eylea (aflibercept solution …

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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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Weight loss drugs could be used to treat cocaine addiction

September 21, 2017
Research and Development addiction, cocaine, cocaine addiction, lorcaserin, pharma, pharmaceutical

Researchers at the Boston Medical Center are investigating the potential of utilising weight loss drugs in the treatment of cocaine …

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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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Merck and Pfizer’s joint skin cancer drug gets EU approval

September 21, 2017
Sales and Marketing Bavencio, Cancer, Merck, Pfizer, merkel cell carcinoma, pharma, pharmaceutical, skin canceer

Merck KGaA and Pfizer have announced that European authorisation of their jointly developed drug Bavencio (avelumab) as a monotherapy in …

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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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Novartis scores EU approval in acute myeloid leukaemia and advanced systemic mastocytosis

September 20, 2017
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EU, Europe, Novartis, acute myeloid leukaemia, advanced systemic mastocytosis, pharma, pharmaceutical

Novartis has announced that its targeted therapy Rydapt (midostaurin) has received EU approval in the two rare cancer indications: newly …

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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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Antibiotic development is inadequate to meet global resistance threat, WHO warns

September 20, 2017
Research and Development WHO, antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial resistance, pharma, pharmaceutical, world health organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report indicating that worldwide development of new antibiotics is not keeping pace …

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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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