Are Online Peer-to-Peer Physician Discussions Overrated?

Congrats to Thibaud Guymard (@thibaudguymard), Digital Marketing Manager at MSD France, and his Comuniti team for winning the Prix Or de la Communication...

FDA’s 2015 Guidance Agenda – Just Like the 2014 Agenda – Promises Publication of...

FDA/CDER has published its 2015 Guidance Agenda (here). Here's what's under the Advertising Category: Brief Summary and Adequate Directions for Use: Disclosing Risk Information in...

2014 Was Another Record Year for FDA: Fewest Number of Untitled/Warning Letters Ever!

In 2014, the FDA approved 41 new drugs -- the most since 1996 (see here). That's quite a "record" even if 37% of the...

A KOL by Any Other Name: Too Toxic for Everyday Use, or Still the...

This article summarizes the results of the KOL Name Change Survey and discusses how to change the underlying process by which pharma companies choose KOLs.

2014 Was a Good Year for FDA & Pharma: Banging Year for Drug Approvals,...

The FDA approved a total of 41 new molecular entities (NMEs) and biologics (BLAs) in 201 4but sent out only a meager 10 advertising enforcement letters in 2014, the fewest ever.

2015 New Year’s Resolutions for Pharma: Focus on Mobile, DTC, Patients, Prices, etc.

Here's John Mack's list of 2015 resolutions for pharmaceutical marketers. Hopefully, at least one of these will be kept, although no one is making any promises.

The Year 2014 in Images: Pharmaguy’s Favorites from Pharma Marketing Blog

In this article, Pharmaguy presents the best images from Pharma Marketing Blog, which cover topics of importance in 2014: DTC and drug promotion spending, drug risks and adverse events, drug industry reputation, FDA and social media regulatory guidelines, mobile apps, and drug development costs.

Pharma Marketing News Vol. 14, No. 1: January 2015

Welcome to Volume 14, Issue #1 (JANUARY 2015) of Pharma Marketing News.

2015 New Year’s Resolutions for Pharma Marketers

My #1 New Year's Resolution is the same every year:  Stop telling pharmaceutical marketers what to do all the time. Unfortunately, I have never kept that...

Critique of an Ad Seen in “Modern Pharma Guidance” Magazine

The ad shown on the left is the subject of an FDA/OPDP "untitled letter" (definition), which took aim at a Sunovion professional print ad...