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Managed Care March 2005 Martin Sipkoff |
Direct-to-Consumer Ads Garner Mixed Outcomes DTC advertising's reputation as a bully may be largely overstated. There's little evidence that sales of specific drugs increase, and there may be some benefit. |
BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Barrett & Weintraub |
Drugmakers Are Changing Channels All those "Ask your doctor if it's right for you" ads on TV haven't delivered. As drugmakers labor to develop more educational and balanced pitches, they're also trying to better target their messages. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 Arlene Weintraub |
Putting Drug Ads Back In The Bottle Efforts to curb direct-to-consumer drug advertising are growing, but so far have met little success. |
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 John Carey |
Drug Ads Need Stronger Medicine New FDA guidelines may not go far enough in making sure pharmaceutical ads are used appropriately. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2007 Diane West |
Spend Trends 2007: Hang 10 Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Hits Its First Decade: Dr. Dot-Com... Digital Detailing... etc. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010 |
Optimizing TV Advertising Placements & Results Brand managers choosing to advertise an anti-depressant on "Criminal Minds" may not be making the best choice. New methodologies reveal "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" along with "The Bachelor" to be shows favored by depressives. |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2011 Brian Orelli |
2 Keys to Amgen's Continued Success Prolia and Xgeva have to perform. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Medical Device Makers Throwing Money Down the Tube Congress is investigating medical device makers' direct-to-consumer ads. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Lipitor Is Back on the Tube Direct-to-consumer ads have to walk a line. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2006 Diane West |
Media Spend Trends: Change the Channel Drug marketers still spend lots of money. But they aim at PhRMA loopholes. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Boning Up on Pfizer's Drug Fablyn looks OK on paper, but that isn't going to cut it in the crowded osteoporosis market. |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Drugmakers Could Lose Their Greatest Weapon Congress is thinking about putting limits on direct-to-consumer advertisements. The pharmaceutical industry trade group makes a preemptive strike. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Amy Barrett |
Will Drugmakers Back Off The Hard Sell? Drug ads need to return to more balanced communication of risks and benefits and not depend so much on catchy phrases and images. The question is whether the industry is ready to take that lesson to heart. |
Salon.com May 8, 2001 Daryl Lindsey |
The "Joe Camel" ads of AIDS? The FDA says ads for drugs to suppress HIV are making false promises, and could be contributing to an epidemic of unsafe sex... |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Avoid This Multibillion-Dollar Market It's just too crowded, but there's no doubt that psychiatric drugs are big business for some drugmakers. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli |
An Untouched Market Waiting to Be Captured Unfilled prescriptions are a potential boon to drug companies. |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
Why Drugmakers Don't Twitter The FDA has so far failed to craft rules clarifying how pharmaceutical companies can participate in online discussions. |
Managed Care February 2007 MargaretAnn Cross |
How Much Trouble Does Health Care Marketing Cause? Whether for drugs, imaging, surgery, or emergency services, direct-to-consumer advertising sparks lively debate. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Stan Bernard |
Consumerization: Pandora's Pillbox By going direct-to-consumer, the industry unwittingly unleashed a swarm of opportunities for other players to enter the pharmaceutical fray. And they made the most of it. Now, a decade later, pharma is feeling the fallout in consumer trust and product value. It's time to take back control. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2004 Charly Travers |
The Case for Drug Stocks The reports of the drug industry's death are greatly exaggerated. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Diane West |
Media Spend Trends: Changing Lanes You've got their attention---now what? Pharma marketing analysts predict a spending shift from branded direct-to-consumer efforts to more disease awareness and corporate reputation promotions. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2011 |
Off-Label But On Point? Use of off-label drugs is a balancing act for physicians, and poses even more problems for pharma. The FDA is moving slowly to help. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2006 Philip A. George |
Alternative Media: Online Med Sites Gain Patient Trust Pharma could benefit from a little less TV. |
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 David Kiley |
The Little Blue Pill -- And Pals -- Have The Blues Despite gargantuan ad budgets, sales are trailing expectations for all three erectile dysfunction contenders. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2008 Brittany Agro |
Docs Rock the Vote Medical journal advertising takes center stage at the sixth-annual Doctor's Choice Awards. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 Jeannette Park |
Directo to Consumer: No-Name Opportunity Marketers are using unbranded ads to get across the right messages. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Thank Goodness for Amgen's New Kids The old drugs are dragging down Amgen's growth. |
The Motley Fool June 11, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Pfizer and Bristol Coagulate Against Clots Let's see how apixaban does against warfarin before we break out the "blockbuster" stamp. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Take Your Low Margins and Shove 'Em In an effort to help lower its budget problems, Greece told drugmakers it was slashing prices of drugs, take it or leave it. Novo Nordisk chose "leave it." |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Pipeline Checkup: Merck Has Potential The Schering-Plough acquisition has seemed to help. |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Weintraub & Barrett |
Waking Up The Insomnia Market On Dec. 16, Sepracor Inc. won approval from the Food & Drug Administration to market Lunesta, a new sleep aid. Giddy investors pushed Sepracor's stock up 16%, to $60, in the two weeks following the news. |
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Arelene Weintraub |
"Exploring New Paradigms in Sleep" Two top execs from Sanofi, maker of the popular drug Ambien, talk about the challenges of staying on top in the insomnia market. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Brian Orelli |
FDA Still Has a Bone to Pick With These Drugmakers Osteoporosis drugs remain under the microscope. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Little Surprise. Big Stock Move. Investors like Amgen's early approval;shares are up 9% today, well ahead of the overall market. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 30, 2007 |
Direct to Consumer: Creativity Through Understanding Creative consumer campaigns begin with a clear understanding of pharma rules and regulations. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Price Inflation in Check? Not in This Industry. Drug prices are on the rise. For now. |
The Motley Fool April 16, 2010 Brian Orelli |
It'll Be a Blockbuster! High Fives All Around, Right? Sanofi-aventis releases top-line data for its phase 3 diabetes drug candidate, lixisenatide. The trial was a success, but don't pencil it in as a blockbuster just yet. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Uncontrolled Crying Over AVANIR's Prescription Data? It's been a slow start, but don't write off this company's pseudobulbar drug just yet. |
Reason April 2001 Ronald Bailey |
Goddamn the Pusher Man Why does everybody seem to hate the pharmaceutical industry? |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 |
Marketing to Professionals: Resource Allocation A Stanford professor schools pharma on professional marketing. |
Chemistry World April 14, 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Psychiatric Drug Ads 'Frequently Misleading' Advertisements for psychiatric drugs - including many top-selling antidepressants - often make claims that are either misleading or impossible to verify, according to a new US study. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Brian Orelli |
And You Thought Biotech Was High-Risk, High-Reward Large clinical trials make cardiovascular drugs risky, but the rewards are there, too. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Mittman & Secor |
Direct to Consumer: Perpetuating Prescribing Myths Misleading language in direct to consumer drug ads leads to patient confusion and the frustration of nurse practitioners and physician assistants. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2010 |
To Brand or Not to Brand? The effectiveness of direct-to-consumer prescription advertising hinges on a consumer's thirst for information. A new study intimates the less info consumers are given up front, the more they seem willing to learn. |
Salon.com March 12, 2002 Janelle Brown |
Saying no to propaganda Critics say the government's new anti-drug campaign is reactionary and moralistic. Worse, it may not even work... |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2008 Brian Orelli |
A Painful Reminder From the FDA The agency issues a reminder that osteoporosis drugs can cause severe pain. |
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 John Carey |
Making Personalized Medicine Pay Medco and other pharmacy benefit managers say future profits depend on matching drugs to patients based on their genes. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
A Faster Pathway to Drug Approvals A thinktank called the Pacific Research Institute has proposed letting drugs approved by the European Medicines Authority onto the market in the U.S. before the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drugs. |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Warning: Not All Boxed Warnings Are Equal Plavix's is mild in comparison. |