Pharma Blog Review

Live from beautiful Jersey City …

June 19, 2009 – 10:43 am

I’m writing from the HCMA conference at the Westin Hotel on the Jersey City waterfront (yesterday, I even moderated a panel), but I’m still doing a blog roundup. You, my readers, demand it of me, and I have no choice but to obey. Newswise this week, events were dominated by the healthcare reform bill debate [...]

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Pandemic panic, and other news

June 12, 2009 – 12:28 am

It’s a short post this week, folks, as I will be off for a few days. You can catch me next Thursday, if you are going, at the annual HCMA conference, where I will be moderating a panel on what pharma and medical device companies want from their healthcare ad agencies. Fun times. This week, [...]

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A roundup for a rainy Friday …

June 5, 2009 – 4:25 pm

Here in my corner of the Northeast, it’s been rainy and the pharma news has been springing up like the well-watered weeds. Among other things: FDA made a bid for being more transparent with a task force and a blog; candidates backed by Carl Icahn and Eastbourne Capital Management won two seats on the Amylin [...]

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Biotech and other bits

May 29, 2009 – 4:44 pm

Bio 2009 may be over, but the afterglow remains. I met a lot of great people, mostly because of Twitter (I’m on there as ChristianeTrue in case you want to follow me, and I will usually follow you right back). I did three blog posts from BIO – about Singapore’s efforts in biotech and medical [...]

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The madness before BIO 2009 …

May 15, 2009 – 6:18 pm

Yes, the big convention is in Atlanta, starting officially next week but with events over the weekend. I’m going. In the last frantic run-up before the convention, my inbox has been flooded with e-mails from PR people eager for a few minutes of my time to meet executive X from company Y. Oy. My iCal [...]

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Kicking off the merry month of May

May 8, 2009 – 5:41 pm

The sun is finally shining and I have emerged from the post-Manny daze, the rush to get two more magazines out, the gloom over a friend’s memorial, and post-travel tiredness from a trip to the annual Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year luncheon, where I live-Tweeted some of the proceedings (scroll down a bit [...]

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