Dr. William Plested of the American Medical Association spoke to military medicine professionals in eDrugSearch.com’s hometown of San Antonio last Friday.
Among his remarks, as reported by Nicole Foy of the Express-News:
Plested outlined several basic principles he said were necessary to revamp the current health care system: universal coverage through a combination of public and private [...]

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Here’s an excerpt from the story by Catherine Dominguez:
A new San Antonio-based company is making buying prescription drugs from online pharmacies easier and safer through a Web site that ensures the companies are licensed.
Cary Byrd, president of eDrugSearch.com, says the Web site … provides consumers with everything they need to know about online pharmacies [...]

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Here’s a promo for CBI’s eMarketing for the Pharmaceutical Industry Conference, scheduled for March 7-9:

While the conference intends to help Big Pharma learn to harness social media tools, it raises the question of whether these tools will ultimately strengthen — or disrupt — Big Pharma’s stranglehold on consumers.
My guess is that Big Pharma has at [...]

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From MediaBuyerPlanner:
Some advertisers admittedly avoided the Super Bowl last year because of the high price tag and the unswervingly critical eye the media and the public place upon Super Bowl ad creative. This year, even some of those advertisers who have purchased ads during the big game are avoiding pre-game hype, writes AdAge.
The majority of [...]

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From the AP via DrugWonks.com:
An AIDS organization sued Pfizer Inc. over ads the group says encourage use of Viagra as a party drug. The nonprofit group said such recreational use furthers the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The suit, filed in Los Angeles by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, calls Pfizer’s ads for [...]

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From USA Today:
President Bush will use Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to begin a new effort to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance and try to capitalize on state innovations. Bush’s plan would financially reward states that make basic private policies more widely available. Already, more than a dozen states [...]

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Dr. Peter Rost penned an interesting post listing all the Pfizer representatives on MySpace.
Once I saw Dr. Rost’s post, my curiousity got the better of me and I paid MySpace a visit as well. I performed a similar search but used a search term that produced some amusing results: “pharmaceutical sales cheerleader”.
I found that [...]

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From MSN.com:
Stocks tumbled today as investors were spooked by earnings news and disappointment with earnings from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (PFE, news, msgs), which also announced it will cut 10,000 jobs. Pfizer shares were down 1.5% this afternoon to $26.81 after the pharmaceutical giant announced it will cut 10,000 jobs — 10% of its worldwide [...]

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A report by the Federal Trade Commission has found that Big Pharma is paying off generic drug manufacturers in order to sell brand-name products for longer periods without competition.
Apparently, the generic drug manufacturers can make more money from witholding their drugs from the market than from selling them.

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Eli Lilly, accused of downplaying the health risks of Zyprexa, is trying to stop other people from talking about it, too. After the leaking and publication of incriminating Lilly internal documents, various online media organizations and Web sites have come forward claiming that Lilly has gagged their online speech.
While the New York Times was [...]

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