2011

Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #15 (12 OCTOBER 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.

Pfizer's US corporate Facebook page was hacked by some 'Kiddies.' What should the industry learn from this experience?

This article summarizes Eli Lilly's European experience using TeleWeb e-detailing, which combines a personal sales rep phone call with Web site surfing.

Welcome to Volume 10, Issue No. 1 (Jan 12, 2011) of Pharma Marketing News. This issue of Pharma Marketing News is devoted to the Pharma Marketing Yearbook (PMY), which is a commemorative record of pharmaceutical marketing issues and highlights of the past year.

This article reports the results of an informal Weber Shandwick survey regarding social media guidelines recently published by the British pharmaceutical industry regulators. It includes advice for how to innovate online without waiting for more specific guidelines from regulators.

Let's Look at Some Data PhRMA Doesn't Mention. PhRMA pointed out that nearly 9 out of 10 physicians considered company-sponsored peer education programs to be 'up-to-date, useful and reliable.'

No doubt you've heard that as of August 15, 2011, Facebook opened up comments on ALL pharma pages with some exceptions. That means that the pharmaceutical industry will no longer be able to shut off comments on their Facebook pages.

Self Care Catalysts' Patient Intelligence Insights Guide™ on Diabetes is the only integrated patient-and consumer-centric report that explores how people suffering from an invisible condition such as diabetes actually circumnavigate their health condition, using the unique Self Care Health Decision Making Dynamics framework™. It is an example of what Grace Soyao, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Self Care Catalysts Inc., a health research and strategy company, means by 'Finding the Consumer within the Patient.'

Welcome to Volume 10, Issue #11 (21 JUNE 2011) of Pharma Marketing News.

A conversation with Elizabeth A. Cermak, EVP, and Chief Commercial Officerat Pozen, Raj Amin, CEO and Co-Founder of HealthiNation, and Bonin Bough, Senior Global Director of Digital and Social Media, PepsiCo, about the who, what, why behind the Pozen Digital Advisory Board, an esteemed group of digital thought-leaders both in and outside of healthcare.