Pharmaceutical Sales Training Summit

Update Training Models, Measure ROI and Utilize Sales Training Technologies to Achieve Optimal Sales Forces Effectiveness and Compliance

Product Web Sites Not Up to Par

Campbell-Ewald Health, a consultancy company, performed a proprietary "Digital Diagnosis" of 58 direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical product Web sites and found them to be incomprehensible...

9th Original Forum on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for the Bio/Pharmaceutical Industry

The 2006 conference provides executives in the Bio/Pharmaceutical industry with high-level coverage on the business drivers and operational components that need to be in place in order to optimize CRM initiatives.

Print DTC, PhRMA Guidelines, and Balance

When the drug industry US trade association PhRMA released its Guiding Principles for Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Advertising in 2005, it was thought that they...

Free Lunch Redux

The recent post about the pharmaceutical industry "free lunch" program for physicians -- see "Free Lunch for Physicians: Newsweek Misleads" -- generated some feedback...

Snark Meter

In the course of writing this blog, I have come across many comments from people. Most -- I am happy to say -- are...

Pharma Support for CME Slows

2005 marks the third consecutive year of decreased growth in commercial support of continuing medical education (CME) by the pharmaceutical industry, according to the...

Free Lunch for Physicians: Newsweek Misleads

According to a Newsweek online article, "A growing number of doctors and medical centers are shutting the door on freebies from big drug companies"...

Imprecise DTC Benefit Messages

Bob Ehrlich, who writes a weekly DTC Perspectives e-mail newsletter, recently wrote:"When drug ads warn about risks and side effects they use words that...

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