The Day of New London, Conn., has a nice article on Dr. Peter Rost’s bid for FDA commissioner. Here’s an excerpt referencing our interview with Peter:

If Pfizer Inc. were to describe its worst nightmare, it might very well be seeing former company whistleblower Peter Rost become commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
So [...]

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It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that we are delighted about the prospect of a new FDA commissioner in 2009 — one who we hope will put the interests of the people above those of large pharmaceutical companies.
We have also been pleasantly surprised to see the groundswell of [...]

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That’s right — in only our sixth week of Rost-watching, Peter’s BrandweekNRX has checked in at #88 on the Healthcare 100, its increasing Technorati rank being the primary factor. We missed our Rost Watch last week, when Peter first cracked the Top 100. When we started the Rost Watch, BrandweekNRX was at #169 [...]

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So far, Brandweek’s hiring of Peter Rost looks like a pretty good investment, since he’s now moved BrandweekNRX up 55 places on the Healthcare 100. (Rost’s Question Authority is at #36.)

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The Healthcare 100 this week puts BrandweekNRX at #126, up from #130 last week and #169 when Peter took over the blogging duties. Peter’s Question Authority blog is also up.

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It used to be Peter Rost vs. John Mack, but now it seems that Peter’s popularity with some other pharma bloggers may be slipping following the release of his new book, The Killer Drug. Bloggers are protesting Peter’s “shameless self promotion” on his own blog and newly acquired BrandweekNRX.
A comment on Peter’s post [...]

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Only two weeks into our Rost Watch and PeterNRX is already kicking some serious butt. The buzz factor has lifted Peter’s BrandweekNRX to #130 (and his Question Authority blog up another notch to #38.)
We’ll have another update next Monday.

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That’s right … the buzz factor is already kicking in for PeterNRX. In fact, it’s also lifted the rank of his Question Authority blog from #42 to #39.
We’ll have another update next Monday.

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According to Peter Rost of BrandweekNRX and “Rost Watch” fame, Pfizer has announced that it will be terminating three execs in the HIV drug sales division. Rost says that
two of these individuals have previously been mentioned in e-mails related to allegations about illegal premarketing of the HIV drug maraviroc, which is one of Pfizer’s [...]

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Pharma bloggers are abuzz with the news that Peter Rost is replacing Jim Edwards as writer for BrandweekNRX. Writes Peter:
Clearly some of things I have written in the past on Question Authority are more fitting for Brandweek, and some are less so. It will be interesting to see if the more fitting material [...]

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