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Sermo and AMA sound off on split

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Sermo claims that its break with the American Medical Association was driven by physicians' need for an alternative voice on critical healthcare issues by way of radical transparency. The AMA believes the value no longer warranted further participation and opted not to renew with Sermo in May. At the result ...

Companies counter insulin safety concerns

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Since Med Ad News' diabetes therapeutic feature was published last month, questions regarding the safety of insulin analogues such as the insulin glargine Lantus have surfaced. Now diabetes drug marketers Sanofi-Aventis SA and Novo Nordisk AS are engaged in rapid-fire PR initiatives to back the clinical evidence of their products. On ...

Wellness cognizance spreads

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Prevention may never overthrow treatment, but healthcare-focused companies and their advertising agencies are mindful of the wellness trend. Public opinion favors prevention as the most important healthcare reform priority, and Americans overwhelmingly support increasing funding for prevention programs to reduce disease and keep people healthy. Now, healthcare-focused marketing and advertising ...

Juice Pharma Worldwide pursues altruistic efforts

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Med Ad News’ interest in pharmaceutical advertising agencies’ philanthropic activities has grown since creating the Heart Award in 2009. Juice Pharma Worldwide reached out to share their recent project-oriented philanthropic involvement with Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York and additional pro-bono advertising plans for the future. In May, ...

Medscape: The next generation

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

WebMD continues to stay ahead of the technology curve. As WebMD looks to the ongoing success of its consumer mobile application, the organization prepares to launch a mobile application for physicians with Medscape for iPhone and iPod Touch in June. WebMD Mobile has surpassed 500,000 downloads since its launch in ...

The iPhone phenomenon

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Ever since we first met last summer, I have been hopelessly in love with my iPhone 3G. It's the perfect device for an info-crazed tech geek like me - I can check e-mail, read the AP wires and newspapers, get directions, record interviews with sources, look at shared files on ...

Live from the Delaware

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

For part of this morning I'm blogging from the ePharma conference in Philadelphia - or, more specifically, at the lovely Hyatt Regency on the Delaware River. Thanks to the nice folks at IIR, who were thoughtful enough to set up free WiFi for conference participants. 9:55AM: Josh Bernoff of Forrester is ...

Our cup runneth over…

Friday, February 6th, 2009

At Med Ad News, we are constantly receiving white papers on all manner of subjects. Most of them, unfortunately, aren't worth the white paper they're written on - they are either shot through with meaningless buzzwords, poorly written, thinly disguised pitches for a product or service, or some combination of ...