The comments are dribbling in to FDA regarding whether or how it should regulate the use of the Internet by drug companies for promotion of its products. Either that, or www.regulations.gov, which is collecting the comments here, has a growing…
You can find the transcripts here:
Enjoy!
A public service message from FDA Intern:
Not only does FDA Intern want to know where all the comments are, I want to know also! It’s been over 2 months since the FDA called for comments and three weeks since the public…
In his closing remarks at yesterday’s public hearing on FDA regulation of social media, Tom Abrams, Director of FDA’s Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC), said “what we have heard is it’s a different medium.”
As far as I…
In my presentation before the FDA at yesterday’s public hearing, I made some specific suggestions, including the use of an FDA-designated hash tag to be included in each branded Tweet posted by pharmaceutical companies. If each product was assigned a…
I am scheduled to make two presentations at the November 12 - 13 FDA public hearing on the use of social media for Rx (and device) promotion:
Presentation #1: Accountability, Fulfilling Regulatory Requirements, and Posting Corrective InformationDate: November 12, 2009Time: 9:30…
Only the following 13 FDA panel members will be able to ask questions during this week’s public hearing on the use of social media by the pharmaceutical industry:
In a telephone news briefing, PhRMA proposed an “FDA-Approved Use of Universal Safety Symbol” that could be used in branded/sponsored ad links (eg, Adwords) and Twitter posts (see image below).
PhRMA says in its slide presentation (see here):
At eyeforpharma’s eCommunication & Online Marketing Summit, the audience had a lot of questions about the upcoming FDA public hearing. At one point, the discussion turned to the nature of the speakers for this hearing versus the 1996 hearing. I…
As you no doubt know, FDA is hosting a public hearing on pharma’s use of social media for Rx drug (and device) promotion next week (see here). I will be making two presentations at that meeting (see speaker schedule here):
