What Good Can Come from a Public FDA Hearing on Social Media?
"The reality of that actually happening is very small...""Does the public even want to talk with pharma companies?""If the FDA opened hearings to the public they would get an earful of...
How to do Social Media Pharma Marketing without Getting Blown Up
That's my re-interpretation of Josh Bernoff's presentation "How to do a social application in life sciences without getting fired" at yesterday's Social Pharmer Boston Unconference organized by @Shwen.Bernoff is the co-author...
Thanks to My Twitter Pals I Donate $50 to Nothing But Nets!
Last week I decided to test the power of Twitter to advance social causes by offering to donate $50 to a charity if I had 1,000 followers by Monday morning. I...
Gardasil Sales: One $ Less (out of three)
Merck's cervical cancer vaccine, GARDASIL, posted total sales as recorded by Merck of $262 million for the first quarter of 2009, a 33 percent decline from the same quarter in 2008...
Want to See Adverse Events of Drugs You are Taking? Try This Site
New to me is the site FDAble, which says it is "A fast, simple search engine for all drug and vaccine Adverse Event information reported to the FDA."I entered these search...
Cialis Ads Make a Splash, But Sales are Down
Although Lilly's profits rose 23% primarily due to a 27% decrease in sales costs (see "Eli Lilly Profit Rises 23%"), "Q1 sales of Cialis, Cymbalta, Zyprexa, Humalog, Gemzar all DOWN from...
FDA, Tear Down This Wall! A Draft Petition Calling for a Public Hearing
FDA, tear down this wall! The wall between pharma and the Internet.For too many years the FDA has neglected to issue guidance to the pharma industry on how it will enforce...
Health Literacy Worse Where There is DTC Advertising than Where There is No DTC!
One of the issues raised at the recent DTC National conference in Washington, DC was the impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising on health literacy.Mark Senak -- blogger at EyeOnFDA, who participated...
New FDA Data: Adverse Event Reporting Increases Dramatically
The FDA received nearly half a million (496, 412) adverse event reports (AERs) in 2008, which is nearly a third (32%) more than it received in 2007 (376,902). By comparison, the...
Viagra Boxers: An Example of Proto-Nostalgia tchotchke
" has initiated an internal investigation following the dispatch to GPs of pairs of boxer shorts, bearing a Pfizer logo to mark the tenth anniversary of the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra...
