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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
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
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
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