Category Archives: Social Media

Pharma, FDA and Web Site Mobilization

In 2009 FDA set up the framework outlining its approach to regulating promotional speech by pharmaceutical companies by posing five questions for discussion during a two-day public meeting the agency held in Washington, D.C.  Rather than issue a single guidance … Continue reading

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Is FDA Running Out of Juice on Social Media?

FDA held a public meeting in April 2009 on the regulation of promotional speech on social media by medical product manufacturers and set the framework for the discussion (and the subsequent regulation) by asking five questions. Ostensibly guidance was to … Continue reading

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FDA Seeking Even More Input on Character Space Limitation

This week FDA published a notice in the Federal Register seeking comment on the proposed collection of information regarding research entitled “Character-Space-Limited Online Prescription Drug Communications“. The notice states that the objective of the research is to test whether a … Continue reading

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Pharma Twitter Activity

I recall a time when the head of a regulatory department of a pharmaceutical company told me that the company would never, ever, ever under any circumstances be involved in social media. By my count, today that company has twenty-one … Continue reading

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More Space on Twitter – Does it Change Things for Pharma?

This week media carried reports that Twitter was going to making a shift in policy regarding space. Until now, you have been limited to 140 characters in your tweeting which included space for your – albeit tiny – URL and/or … Continue reading

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