Pharmaceutical industry – Science, Technology, Society

FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them

Posted on December 30, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information
pharma-mkting.com

Two days after Christmas, on December 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vacation, the FDA quietly issued “Guidance for Industry Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information About Prescription Drugs and Medical…

RT @pharmaguy: FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information. Free PMN article: http://flip.it/IukwS http://flip.it/GpdGc

Big Pharma and unfiltered speech: A dangerous prescription (features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
Drug Approvals Reach 15-Year High on Smoother FDA Reviews – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
FDA approved 39 new drugs in 2012, none from Houston (bizjournals.com)
Pharma Best Practices: in Black and White, not Shades of Gray (medmeme.com)
Social Media Guidance Countdown Continues: 576, 575, 574 . . . (druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com)
Pharma Marketing Blog: The Year 2012 in Images (slideshare.net)
Case Study: Pharma and Blogging (medmeme.com)

Drug companies return to nutritional supplements for innovation

Posted on December 9, 2012May 27, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Consumer, Drug Firms Vie in Vitamins – WSJ.com)

We mistook drugs for food supplements: Ram Singh (thehindu.com)
Myths In The Pricing Of New Drugs (forbes.com)
Decreasing Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents Through Vitamin D Supplementation (medicalnewstoday.com)

Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need

Posted on November 5, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

Let Patients Create- A Rally Call
Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com

Précis:

There’s an old saying; “if you want something done properly, do it yourself”.

My background is as a conference researcher and organiser – for pharma, with pharma. I focused on digital opportunities, case-studies and…

http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6

ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com)
Bad Pharma Audiobook – Unabridged (Chapter 1, Part 1) by @BenGoldacre #BigPharma (desdaughter.wordpress.com)
Multichannel Pharma – a myth or reality? (pharmastrategic.com)
Prescription Filled: Getting What We Want from Big Pharma (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com)
Do you have back pain? Hot flashes? Big Pharma hopes so! (intrepidreport.com)
THE biggest challenge in pharma digital marketing (worldofdtcmarketing.com)
Do you own your genes, or can Big Pharma patent them? (stratrisks.com)
Teva Joins Top 10, “Face” of Big Pharma Changing (pharmexec.com)

ExL Pharmaceutical Conferences

Posted on January 23, 2011August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

ExL Pharmaceutical Conferences | Pharmaceutical Meetings | Pharmaceutical Events

I have spoken at these conferences and they do a great job of staying abreast of the latest in digital media, KM and health informatics in pharma and life sciences.