Survey That Rewarded NYC Physicians with $100 Gift Card Concludes Physicians View Pharma Gifts...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about all the brouhaha regarding results of a survey of NYC physicians just reported in Archives...

Should J&J’s CEO Weldon Take His Medicine Like a Man and Appear Before Congress...

Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon was asked yesterday to appear before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for a second time...

Finally, A Google Drug Search Ad Format That Has All FDA Could Want… But...

Google just launched a NEW Rx drug ad format that includes everything FDA requires that a drug company include in its direct-to-consumer advertising: fair...

Humana’s iPhone/iPad “Games for Health”: Would You Pay $2.99 to Play?

My Twitter pal @skypen (aka Fabio Gratton) keeps me up to date regarding innovative health apps and games developed by pharmaceutical and other healthcare...

Digital Health Coaching: Personalized Behavioral Intervention Aids Adherence, Saves Money

A conversation with Steven Schwartz, Ph.D., Research Director, HealthMedia, about its digital health coaching solution that emulates the experience with a human coach or counselor but that is delivered on digital platforms that include the web, CD, iPhone, IVR, SMS and digital print.

“You Never Had Coffee Like This Before!”: FDA Wants to Keep It That Way

FDA is warning consumers not to use "Magic Power Coffee," an instant coffee product marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement. FDA says...

I Predicted It: Social Media Guidance Likely To Be Split Into Multiple Documents

"What had been envisioned as a massive, all-encompassing guidance on Internet promotion is being retooled as multiple guidances to address specific issues in the...

Sex, Pharmaceuticals, and Selling Sickness: I’m Looking Forward to a Great Time In Amsterdam!

This October I will be in Amsterdam enjoying the sights and pleasures that city has to offer. But I am not planning to buy...

FDA Sucker Punches Sepracor with Warning Letter After the Match Is Over!

On June 9, 2010, Carrie Newcomer, Regulatory Review Officer in FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC), sent a "warning" letter to...

Are Docs Being Banished from Pharma’s Garden of Eden?

"It is a breathtaking sweep to squash something that is really important to us, the science going on in the private sector," said Francis...