Greece & US Top List of Big Drug Spenders – A Shared Sign of...

"Greece’s continuing high level of spending on medicines is a striking example of the broader problems facing the country as it battles under international...

SurroundHealth: An Online Community for Healthcare Extenders

A conversation with Susan Collins, MS, CHES, RD, Senior Vice President, Health Education Research and Development, HealthEd, about the SurroundHealth online community of 'Healthcare Extenders.' We will focus on how this group of healthcare professionals impacts health care, why they should not be ignored by pharma marketers and how to measure ROI when working with them.

FDA Mobile Regulatory Fear Mongering by PhRMA

In a blog post provocatively titled "An App for That, But For How Much Longer?" (here), PhRMA's Kate Connors agreed with a Washington Times...

The Problem with Unregulated “Calculator” Apps for Physicians: Buggy Software!

At this year's ePharma Summit in New York, I spent a lot of time listening to presentations about pharma mobile apps. There was, for...

Bad Journalism or Bad Pharma?

My blogger friend Rich Meyer went on a bit of a rant against "bad journalism" and how pharma is often misrepresented in the news...

Webinar: Pharma’s Social Media Trials and Tribulations

A Record of Social Media Events Impacting the Pharmaceutical Industry The pharmaceutical industry is at a turning point in its adoption of new social media...

ePharma, the “Ron Paul” of Pharma Marketing – We Are the 1%

At yesterday's ePharma Summit conference session on "Jumpstarting Digital Capabilities in Pharma: Learning from Other Industries," the presenter, Pete Mehr, Chief Healthcare Strategy Officer...

Bayer’s CEO Accuses Patients of Being Ungrateful B*stards! We Cured Cancer, Dammit!

That's my takeaway from this comment by Marijn Dekkers, "outspoken" head of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, in which he not only disses patients but claims to...

New Media Privacy Issues & Online Health Marketing

This survey asks YOUR opinion about the privacy issues raised in a brief filed with the FTC regarding the online marketing practices of pharmaceutical and other health-related companies.

Pfizer’s Contraceptive Recall: A Statistical Needle in a Haystack!

All day yesterday, the news swirled through social media about Pfizer's voluntary nationwide recall of contraceptive tablets due to the possibility of "inexact tablet...