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The Drug Companies and Online Social Media

Imagine you’re a pharmaceutical company product manager and your specific product helps people with a chronic illness, or a cancer that can be managed by taking a pill or an injectable medicine over many years. You want to be part of the dialogue patients have with each other. You want to be part of the [...]

Does the FDA Play Fair for Patients?

Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s cancer drug office

They have a tough job, those government doctors, scientists, and bureaucrats who are charged with assessing the safety and effectiveness of proposed new medical products. As you know, they rely largely on studies presented by the applicants.

The FDA has the power [...]