Is This Pfizer’s Social Media “Playbook?”

Yesterday, I challenged Pfizer to show us its "Social Media Playbook" that it has been promoting for months at industry conferences (see "Pfizer, Show...

Pfizer, Show Us Your Social Media “Playbook”

Yesterday, I caught an early New Jersey Transit train to Manhattan to attend BDI's Social Communications & Healthcare 2011 Case Studies & Roundtables conference....

Branded Pharma Wages War Against Generic and OTC Medicines: COLCRYS vs. colchicine Case Study

The drug industry often claims that it is facing an unprecedented "patent cliff" -- ie, a point when many branded drugs lose their patents...

URL Shorteners: Tech “Glitches”, Censorship, and Loss of Credibility

Now that I regularly use Twitter as part of my business (eg, see "Social Media Enable Your E-Mail Ad Blasts") I depend on URL...

Tracking Public Health Trends: Twitter vs Google vs Your Nose

While my son was away at school this spring, I asked him how he was doing. "OK dad," he said, "but I have this...

FDA is Monitoring This Blog and Perhaps You Too!

I've often wondered if FDA reads Pharma Marketing Blog. FDA has sometimes sent warning letters to pharma companies after I've blogged about violative DTC...

F**k the FDA! Drug Industry Should Issue Self-Regulatory Social Media Guidelines!

On the one hand, the pharmaceutical industry says that lack of FDA social media guidelines hinders its ability to engage health care professionals, payers,...

Citizen Petition Filed by Pharma Likely to Delay Indefinitely the Issuance of FDA Social...

Allergan, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Pfizer, Novo, and Sanofi-Aventis filed a "citizen petition" with the FDA yesterday, urging the agency to...

Mass General & Harvard Not Transparent About Cause of Docs’ “Honest Mistakes”

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have disciplined three faculty members as part of a conflict-of-interest (COI) case, which was "a prime...

I’m at Doctors 2.0 & You Conference in Paris

Yesterday, I presented a workshop at the Doctors 2.0 & You conference in Paris. Here's a photo taken by my friend Bertalan Mesko (@berci): You...