SmithKline in Medical News

Iodex goes to SmithKline Beecham consumer Healthcare

Iodex is the market leader in the pain-balm segment, with a market share of 70 per cent-plus. Iodex faces challenges from local brands like Amrutanjan, Tiger Balm (locally manufactured by Elder Pharma), Zandu Balm and Sensur of Glenmark. // Glaxo SmithKline India (GSK) has decided to transfer...

New Cervical Cancer Vaccine to Be Launched By Glaxo Smithkline

Cervarix, a cervical cancer vaccine produced by Glaxo Smithkline (Britain's biggest drug manufacturer) is being registered for approval// by the European regulatory authority. If approved, the vaccine would be marketed for commercial use, by the end of next year. Gardasil, a similar vaccine ...

Cancer Patients Use New Guided Imagery CD to Help Boost Healthy Immune Functioning

... and hundreds of U.S. hospitals, including Mayo, Columbia Presbyterian, the Cleveland Clinic and Bethesda Naval Hospital. Pharmas such as Roche, Glaxo smithkline and Ortho Biotech have distributed over half a million CDs to Chemotherapy and Radiation patients around the English speaking world, and there are cur...

Gene Network Sciences Names Former Wyeth President of R&D Robert Ruffolo to SAB

...xcellence in 2005. In 2004, IBC Conferences named him Chief Scientific Officer of the Year. Prior to joining Wyeth, Dr. Ruffolo spent 17 years at smithkline Beecham (now GSK) and 6 years at Lilly Research Laboratories. During his career, Dr. Ruffolo played a significant role in the discovery and/or develop...

Taligen Therapeutics Advances Corporate Growth Plan with Appointment of Jeffrey T. Walsh as Chief Business Officer

...trategic planning and business development while at Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corp., Exact Sciences Corp., Pathogenesis Corp. (now part of Novartis), and smithkline Beecham (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). "I am looking forward to working with Dr. Celniker and the rest of the team that she has assembled as...

Watson Pharmaceuticals Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results

...ese forward-looking statements. Risperdal(R) is a registered trademark of Johnson & Johnson Corporation. Lamictal(R) is a registered trademark of smithkline Beecham Corporation. The following table presents Watson's results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2008 and 2007: ...

Smart Balance Announces Marketing Organization Appointment

...ountry's leading manufacturer of composite decking. Prior to that he held senior leadership roles with Mead Johnson/Bristol-Myers Squibb, Rite Aid and smithkline Beecham Consumer Healthcare. McWilliams has a BA from Westminister College and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business. The Company issued t...

Anthony Clarke, PhD Joins Alexza Pharmaceuticals as Vice President, International Development Operations

...cal Operations Manager for Scherer DDS (a division of RP Scherer) from 1994 to 1999; and various European clinical research positions with Beecham and smithkline Beecham and GH Besselaar from 1983-1994. Dr. Clarke holds a Bachelors of Science in Pharmacology from University of Sunderland and a PhD in Psychophar...

Memory Pharmaceuticals Appoints Paul Blake to Board of Directors

...esident, Worldwide Medical and Regulatory Operations. He has also served as Chief Medical Officer for MDS Proteomics, Inc. and as Medical Director for smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for its worldwide clinical research and development operations. "We are delighted to welcome Paul t...

Healthcare Veteran Richard Findlay Joins Diamond Management & Technology Consultants as Partner

...nagement & Technology Consultants, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTPI ) announced today that Richard Findlay, whose experience includes senior executive positions at smithkline Beecham and Abbott Laboratories, has joined the firm as a partner in its healthcare practice. Findlay has 25 years of experience in both managing and...

Sisko Foundation Gears Up to 'Pick Up The Pace Against Breast Cancer'

...ants to make a difference come join us to raise a lot of money to fight this disease," said Siler, who is a breast cancer survivor. The on site Glaxo smithkline Health Fair will feature over 20 vendors providing information services and products related to breast cancer and general wellness. Nearly 4,900 Nort...

FDA Grants Approval to First Bird Flu Vaccine

...h strain they protect against. The U.S. has awarded contracts for a smaller number of shots to Novartis AG, based in Basel, Switzerland, and Glaxo smithkline Plc of London. Glaxo is developing an H5N1 vaccine using a booster, called an adjuvant, which makes its shot effective in two doses of 3.75 microg...

Actos Linked To Bone Fractures In Diabetic Women

... Japan’s pharma giant//, Takeda Pharmaceuticals who had conducted a study on this drug. A similar note of caution was issued a few weeks back by Glaxo smithkline also. The study was conducted for more than three years on 15,500 people. Actos which is generically known as pioglitazone were given to women in...

Glaxo Files Cancer Drug For Approval With FDA

... Tykerb, a breast cancer drug from Glaxo smithkline has been filed for approval with America’s FDA and European regulators//. T...eck and head tumors will commence soon. Jean-Pierre Garnier who heads Glaxo smithkline said that the drug will be given to people who have just had surgery as par...

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to challenge patents on drug

...patent till December 2003. Other generic drugs in Dr Reddy’s pipeline are Olanzapine, on which Eli Lilly has a patent, and Ondansetron, on which Glaxo smithkline Beecham has the patent, but these will be in 204. ...

Glaxo launches pills to help smokers quit in 7-12 weeks

... GLAXO smithkline India has launched an oral treatment for smoking, called Zyban. The pill (generic - Bupropion Hydrochloride) is reportedly the first product aimed at...

Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs

... ingredient for diet drugs of the future.British scientists from drug giant smithkline Beecham and the University of Cambridge have created mice with a human prot...e fat combustion, so the animals are burning more fat," Dr John Clapham, of smithkline Beecham, said."They eat more because they have a higher metabolic rate but ...