Live from ePharma Summit 2008: When Will Pharma Get into Social Media? (PharmaExecBlog) McCain is the FrontRunner – The Tea Leaves for Pharma (Eye on FDA) More Pharma Tricks With Off-Label Claims About Their Drugs (Schwitzer health news blog) Bad News Day for Big Pharma (GoozNews) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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Web 2.0 meets Human Body 1.0 (Web Worker Daily) TECH: Shawn Jenkins, BenefitFocus interview (The Health Care Blog) Interview with RadarFind Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Vincent Carrasco (Health Business Blog) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya are the chief organizers of the Health 2.0 Connecting Consumers and Providers conference, which will take place March 3-4 in San Diego. Matthew is a healthcare strategist and author of perhaps the industry’s most influential blog, The Health Care Blog. Indu is an MD and founder of Etude Scientific, which [...]

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Hint: It’s not because it’s a great system. Read this.

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From O’Dwyer’s PR Blog: The Vytorin controversy is just icing on a (low cholesterol) cake for those upset with the barrage of drug advertising, and the promotion of “quasi diseases” by big pharmaceutical houses. It’s a safe bet the Congress is going to step up efforts to regulate the marketing practices of prescription drugs. Bart [...]

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Zetia and Vytorin Out—Red Yeast Rice In? (The Daily Green) Off Label Marketing; J&J Style (PharmaFraud) Big Pharma Ad Nauseam (Out of My Head) Big Pharma, Big Money and Cholesterol Confusion (Kate Stone) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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Heath Ledger could be the latest star to have died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. Ledger was taking anti-depressants as well as the “dangerous drug” Ambien at the time of his death, although his autopsy today was inconclusive. While most celebrity drug deaths have been the result of either suicide or the use [...]

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Oh what fun it is to cover Big Pharma. First we get the Wall Street Journal crediting Peter Rost and BrandweekNRX for breaking an insider trading scandal at Schering-Plough. Then we get Merck and Schering-Plough pulling their popular “two sources of cholesterol” commercials from television because Vytorin apparently does not reduce the buildup of fatty [...]

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In our interview series leading up to the Health 2.0 conference in March, we’ve talked with Scott Shreeve of Crossover Health , Ed Silverman of Pharmalot, and Fard Johnmar of HealthcareVox. Today we share our interview with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and management consultant who founded the Think-Health consultancy in 1992. She is author [...]

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Spend $300 & Find Out Your Prostate Cancer Risk; Great News, But Something Is Missing (Healthcare Vox) Everybody’s Talking about the Future of Health Care (World Health Care Blog) Homeland Security reports health record hacking (Mike’s Viewpoint) Subscribe to the eDrugSearch Blog with Bloglines:

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