Havas Group acquires India healthcare agency Sorento
Havas Group has acquired India-based health-and-wellness agency Sorento. Sorento will integrate Havas’ Health & You business unit and be rebranded Havas Life Sorento. The [...]
New branding cements Pegasus’ integration with Ashfield
Specialist healthcare agency Pegasus has unveiled a new brand identity to mark a full year since its acquisition by Ashfield Healthcare Communications. Conceived by its [...]
Edelman hires Kate Hawker as healthcare MD
Edelman UK has appointed Burson-Marsteller’s former healthcare chair, Kate Hawker, as MD of its UK healthcare team. Hawker brings 25 years’ experience working with [...]
Aetna International hands global comms brief to Grayling
Grayling has won a global comms brief from expat health insurance provider Aetna International. The agency will build Aetna’s International’s profile from network hubs [...]
Consilium Strategic Communications strengthens senior healthcare team
Consilium Strategic Communications has strengthened its senior international healthcare team with the appointment of Philippa Gardner and Suki Virji. Gardner has more than 13 [...]
Health-tech platform Cera chooses W to help “disrupt social care sector”
Cera, a new health-tech platform which enables family members to book carers for elderly relatives, has appointed W as its retained PR agency, following a launch project in [...]
Ruder Finn launches healthtech practice
Ruder Finn has launched Bloom Health, a new speciality practice focused exclusively on healthtech. Nicole Pariser, the former director of global PR for Medidata, will support [...]
Infection Prevention Society hires Forster Communications
Forster Communications has been selected by the Infection Prevention Society to help position the organisation as the UK’s leading authority on infection prevention and [...]
Ketchum grows UK healthcare team
Ketchum has added Kate Paxton and Neil McLelland to its healthcare team in London. Paxton, SVP and director at the Washington DC healthcare practice, is now leading the London [...]
Shani Shaker joins Golin to enhance consumer health business
Golin has appointed Shani Shaker as a director in its healthcare team, with a brief to lead and grow its consumer health portfolio. Shaker started her career at agencies [...]
W promotes World Cancer Day
Cancer Research UK has called in W’s talent and influencer division to raise the profile of World Cancer Day 2017, which takes place this Saturday (4 February). World Cancer [...]
AXON makes trio of hires
Healthcare PR specialist AXON Communications has hired Sola Neunie, Simonetta Ballali and Andy Scott. Neunie takes on an associate editorial director role, Ballali joins as a [...]
3 Monkeys Zeno appoints tech and healthcare leads
3 Monkeys Zeno has bolstered its healthcare and tech practices, appointing FleishmanHillard Fishburn’s David Berkovitch as head of healthcare and naming Zeno Group’s European [...]
AstraZeneca’s Kelly Teasdale joins Burson-Marsteller
Kelly Teasdale has joined Burson-Marsteller’s healthcare team as senior director, following two years as global brand comms director at pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca. At [...]
Dexcom chooses LEWIS
LEWIS adds to its healthcare client roster as it is appointed by Dexcom, a provider of diabetes management systems. Dexcom’s technology monitors glucose levels in diabetes [...]
Ketchum makes senior healthcare appointments
Ketchum has promoted partner Amy McCarthy to director of healthcare client development, North America. In addition, Tom Jones has rejoined Ketchum in the role of director, [...]
AXON communications opens Swiss-based office
Healthcare communications firm AXON is set to establish an office in Switzerland to support global and European head offices of Swiss-based clients. The agency has appointed [...]
Superdrug hires Well Hello for health PR activity
Superdrug has chosen Well Hello, an independent PR agency set up by WE Communications’ Nick Woods and Cow PR’s Lisa Taylor in February, to handle its health PR activity. Well [...]