About the Author
My name is Mark Senak. I’m a lawyer and I work at the international communications firm FleishmanHillard in New York. For the past several years, I have been consulting with pharmaceutical and biologic companies that are engaged in the process of bringing new drugs to market. I have also worked extensively with an array of medical societies and patient organizations providing strategic communications counsel and media training.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
The State of the News Media Report, Implications for Pharma and FDA, Part 2
Yesterday the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual State of the Media report. Within its 700 pages of information, there is a lot that can be discerned about how the way we communicate is changing – is … Continue reading
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The State of the News Media Report – Implications for Pharma and FDA, Part 1
Each year, the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism releases a report on the state of the news media. It is packed with information and views about how media is rapidly being transformed. For medical product manufacturers such as pharmaceutical … Continue reading
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Yahoo! Submits Document to FDA Social Media Docket and Status of Submissions
Is FDA still listening about social media and medical products? The deadline has passed (February 28), but a new submission was posted – this time from Yahoo! to the FDA's Social Media Docket that was set up in the wake … Continue reading
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Facebook and Web Pages – What Pharma and FDA Need to Know
Recently, people have noticed an important milestone. The top traffic referral site is …. Google? Nope. Yahoo? Nope. It is Facebook. What? That's crazy talk! Apparently not. And not only is it tops in terms of numbers, according to … Continue reading
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Interesting History at FDA as Alliance for a Stronger FDA Goes to Bat for Bigger Agency Budget
The Alliance for a Stronger FDA had an interesting blog posting on Friday called "Top Ten Things that Hill Staff Need to Know About FDA" in preparation for their upcoming Hill Lobby Day to be held March 11. In case you … Continue reading
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