Awards: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Everybody likes to win awards and there are many awards for advertising and for pharmaceutical industry advertising in particular.DTC Perspectives, a fine trade publication...

Rozerem Ads Innovatively Ineffectual

At yesterday's "DTC in the New Era" conference organized by DTC Perspectives, Inc., Dale Taylor, President & CEO of AbelsonTaylor, Inc., which is the...

Allergan Ignores Guidelines, Wins Award Anyway

I spent all day yesterday at the "DTC in the New Era" conference organized by my colleagues at DTC Perspectives, Inc. One of the...

8th Annual Disseminating Off-Label Information

This conference provides an open forum to discuss the issues faced by bio/pharmaceutical companies with regards to off-label promotion.

Life Sciences Sales Forum – Recruiting & Training

The program will focus on the recruiting and training portions, addressing the issues of retention within these two streams as well as help the recruiters to find and match the best individual for that particular territory.

Interpretation of Ads: Hokey vs. Horny

Quoting a Wikipedia entry:"Dreams, in Freud's view, were all forms of 'wish-fulfillment' -- attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort,...

CGC: Old Wine in New Bottles

If chatter and palaver of buzz marketing vendors at industry conferences is any gauge, pharmaceutical companies are very interested in consumer-generated content (CGC), which...

3rd Annual Forum on Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistency

Maximize the Value of Your Compliance Initiatives by Integrating Disease Management Programmes and Collaborating with External Stakeholders

Lipitor’s Jarvik: Fop or Flop?

Is Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik artificial heart, a fop? Or is he a flop?Dr. Jarvik appears in all the recent Lipitor...

Marketing 101: Newer is Better

I found this in a recent USA Today story:When it comes to prescription drugs, the Public Citizen Health Research Group advises consumers to follow...