WikiPharmaLeaks: TALES OF A PHARMA CEO

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Drug Discovery is as Much an Art as a Science, Says GSK CEO Witty

GSK's "More Than Medicine" blog posts today announced that GSK CEO Andrew Witty "recently wrote a forward-looking essay focusing on the future of the...

Is Your Digital Marketing Solution Mentioned in the CDD Brief? It Should Be!

After a day of cooking, I spent the remainder of the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend reading and highlighting sections of the 144-page brief that the...

Center for Digital Democracy Challenges FTC to Reign In Online Pharma Marketing

Today, the Center for Digital Democracy filed a 144-page brief with the FTC challenging that agency to investigate its charges that Google, ...

Memory Lane: The Internet in 1995 – I was There BEFORE Google!

While cleaning out my basement I came across a box that contained the premiere issue of "The Net," a magazine published in June, 1995....

Detailing by Telephone Accounts for Nearly Half of “New Media” Promotion to Physicians

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EU to Release Data in December That Could Put Alli Diet Pill Sales in...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) -- Europe's equivalent to the FDA in the U.S. -- "will make thousands of pages of clinical trial reports...

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Will a Pharma Company Ever “Host” a Chat on Twitter?

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AMA Policy on Use of Social Media Sees the Glass Half Empty

Yesterday, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new policy on "Professionalism in the Use of Social Media" (find the press release here) According...