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Patient Centricity used to be a buzzword in that it was often mentioned but seldom practiced by pharma companies. A lot of progress has been made in the past years to achieve patient centricity, but not all drug companies have had much success. Unfortunately, that has had a negative impact on the industry's reputation.

In this 3-minute audio snippet, several anonymous pain patients and advocates tell why they are in favor of allowing pharmaceutical companies to promote/advertise off-label uses of drugs directly to patients.

Welcome to the December 6, 2016, issue of Pharma Industry News Update (aka PinUp). PinUp is published every Tuesday as part of your Pharma Marketing News subscription service. It features curated pharma industry news and views of topical interest from a variety of sources.

John (PharmaGuy) Mack was a speaker at the April 22,2017, March for Science in Doylestown, PA. He spoke of the need for more scientists to get involved in local politics and for all citizens to elect pro-science leaders and ensure that they rely on evidence, not beliefs, when making decisions about our health, our environment, and our general well-being.

In this 2.5-minute audio snippet, Trish Nettleship, Director, Social Media & Influence, UCB, Inc., talks about how her company embraces social media as a new way to reach its audiences and the importance of having a strong partnership with the company's pharmacovigilance team.

A conversation with Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and Director of PharmedOut.

In this 3.5-minute audio snippet, Venkat Gullapalli, MD, and Mark Goldstone, Medikly Co-CEOs, talk about The Physician Value Index and how it can be used to provide marketing effectiveness benchmarks that are specific to your organization.

In this 4-minute audio snippet, Ryan McGuire, Research Team Leader at Cutting Edge Information, talks about some of the challenges faced by small and large pharmaceutical companies in launching mobile apps including picking the right agency, determining at what point in a drug's lifecycle to begin the process, and how to coordinate a true global launch of a mobile campaign.

In this 2.5-minute audio snippet, Lea Katsanis, PhD, Marketing Professor at Concordia University's John Molson School of Business, talks about Rx brand personalities as perceived by consumers and how pharmaceutical marketers can use or abuse how consumers perceive their brands' human characteristics.

In this 2.5-minute audio snippet, Pharmaguy presents data from Kantar Media that shows that the death of professional print pharma advertising has been greatly exaggerated. He gets into which companies and drugs have spent the most on journal advertising and summarizes a study of physician attitudes regarding these ads.