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New FDA Campaign Targets Detailing, Trade Shows
In addition to sending out more warning letters and stepping up enforcement activity, the Food and Drug Administration wants health professionals to do more to police drug marketing and advertising. The agency’s “Bad Ad” program urges doctors and other health professionals to report any false or misleading ads or inappropriate marketing pitches. Depending on one’s [...]
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Google Unveils New Pharma Ads
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Google just showed off mockups of its fancy new pharma ads at FDA’s social media hearing, on November 12. A few months back, the big G mentioned that it was working on ads to appease both pharmaceutical marketers and FDA, but this is the first time most people got to lay eyes on [...]
Posted in Strategy Also tagged Food and Drug Administration, Google, Health care, Search, Search Engines, Uniform Resource Locator, Yahoo 2 Comments
Pfizer Quietly Updates Company Logo
A few weeks back, about the time Pfizer started swapping out Wyeth signs for Pfizer branding, I was tipped off that the age-old Pfizer logo had been modified from the horizontal blue oval to an offset design.
Additionally, the company did tiny modifications on each letter, dropping the serif from the “P,” making the “F” less [...]

Pharma Marketers Should Think Outside WebMD, Says Report