Living with the promotional guidelines—one year later

It’s been a year since the introduction of the promotional guidelines prohibiting the distribution to healthcare professionals of pens, bags, and other “service items” bearing the product’s logo. So, how has it impacted the industry, especially the traffic on the floor of the exhibit hall. Having just returned from a medical conference this past week, I decided to reflect on my experience from last year at the same congress, just before the promotional guidelines went into ...

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Author: Jo Ann Mayer

Is the printed page dead?

I returned to my office after an extended business trip and was prepared to greet the foot-high stack of medical journals that would occupy my attention for the next week. [...] ...

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Author: Jo Ann Mayer

We need ghostwriters—but transparent ones

The recent revelation that Eli Lilly used ghostwriters to write favorable articles on the use of Zyprexa and sought out physicians to put their names on the respective papers brings up the issue of the common practice of medical writers [...] ...

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Author: Jo Ann Mayer

Speaker Training: Content vs Delivery

Speakers' training meetings are conferences organized by pharmaceutical or device manufacturers, designed to bring together and train a group of key opinion leaders on the company’s product or disease state so they can speak at various events organized by either the company of medical associations. ...

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Author: Jo Ann Mayer