An Analysis of Genentech’s 4HER Mobile Health App Privacy Policy

Genentech's 4HER iPhone App for women with HER2 breast cancer is interesting and perhaps unique in a Mobile Health App developed by a pharma...

#mHealthPharma TweetChat: What’s Needed for Pharma to Develop Quality mHealth Apps?

Join me tomorrow, October 9, 2014, 12 noon Eastern U.S., for an hour-long TweetChat on how pharma can develop high quality mobile health apps....

“Sixty Minutes” — Sponsored by Sanofi — Exposes the “Financial Toxicity” & “Turkish Bazaar”...

Here's something you don't see every day: a Sixty Minutes report that slams the extraordinarily high prices charged for cancer drugs -- e.g., $100,000...

Die-Hard Pharma Rx Brand Marketers Should Get Out of the Social Media Game

I received several interesting comments to my post on LinkedIn regarding the pharma industry's reaction to FDA's recent "Guidance for Industry Internet/Social Media Platforms with...

Oh Yeah, Baby! Show Me More!… Viagra TV Ads Like This. But Don’t Let...

Wowie zowie! Is that a roll of dimes quarters in my pocket or am I just excited to see this new Viagra DTC TV...

A Formula for Patient-Centric mHealth Apps

This article summarizes the comments from a LinkedIn debate and #mHealthPharma TweetChat and condenses the learnings into one simple formula for creating quality pharma mHealth apps.

Boehringer Ingelheim Receives the 2014 PharmaGuy Social Media Pioneer Award

This article summarizes the social media accomplishments -- despite bumps in along the way -- that earned the Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) Global Social Media Team the coveted Pharmaguy Social Media Pioneer Award.

Correcting Independent 3rd-Party ‘Misinformation’ About Prescription Drugs

This article summarized the industry's response to the second FDA social media guidance document regarding correcting and/or responding to misinformation related to a firm's own FDA-approved products when that information is created or disseminated by independent third parties on the Internet or through social media.

Pharma Marketing News Vol. 13, No. 9: October 2014

Welcome to Volume 13, Issue #9 (OCTOBER 2014) of Pharma Marketing News.

Have Hefty DOJ Fines Made Pharma Marketers More Compliant with FDA Regulations?

Dale Cooke (@PhillyCooke on Twitter) live tweeted from the FDLI's Advertising and Promotion Conference yesterday and asked the question: "Do # of violation letters (low)...