FDA’s Abrams Spends 4 Minutes Discussing Social Media Guidance at ePharma Summit!
This just in: FDA Won't Issue Specific Guidance for Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter. Claims These Media Are Just Passing Fads! Now Back to Your Regularly-Scheduled TV Ad.
Pfizer Battles to Protect Lipitor Cash Cow
Lipitor Won't Go Gentle Into that Good Generic Night. Pfizer is taking a number of steps to protect it's Lipitor franchise and it hopes that many patients currently taking Lipitor will remain loyal to the brand.
Maximizing Stakeholder Effectiveness
A summary of the highly anticipated 2011 results of Kantar Health's annual Stakeholder Effectiveness survey, which revealed that over two-thirds of respondents from leading companies in the pharmaceutical sector think that customer retention is a key performance measure.
Mining Mobile Health App User Data: Liberating Health Data While Protecting Privacy
A conversation with Jacqueline Thong, co-founder and CEO of Ubiqi Health, about disease management mobile applications and how pharma marketers can leverage mobile health apps to engage with and learn from patients.
PR & Interactive Agencies Vie for Pharma Social Media Campaign Crumbs
Should a PR firm or an interactive marketing agency be in charge of pharma social media campaigns?
Pharma Marketing News Vol. 10, No. 4: 23 FEBRUARY 2011
Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #4 (23 FEBRUARY 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.
In Memory of Steve Jobs Will Novartis Sales Reps Really Embrace iPads?
David Epstein, head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, said eighty percent of his company's sales reps will give up their PCs for iPads in 2012. Will they do it?
Physician Participation in Peer-to-Peer Social Media Sites
This article summaries research data exploring why physicians interested in using online peer-to-peer social communities outnumber by 2 to 1 physicians who are actually using them. Includes suggestions for what these communities must do in order to provide more value to physicians.
The Twelve Steps of Pharma Social Marketers Anonymous
Welcome to Pharma Social Marketers Anonymous (PSMA)! You are among friends. Soon, you will take important steps on the path to overcoming your fear of social media. The first step is to admit you are powerless over social media and that your online life has become unmanageable. Are you ready to take ALL 12 steps toward recovery?
Will Critics Kill Pharma’s Social Media Golden Egg Laying Goose?
The fear is that if the first steps by pharma to engage in social media conversation are too harshly scrutinized and criticized, the drug industry will shy away from getting more involved in social media.
