That’s right.  According to a post on KevinMD.com, the ban on pharma gifts to physicians in some states has contributed to some being carded for admittance to CME dinners and other events.  See full post here.

PharmaGossip, originally a “bad boy” blogger and more recently twitterer, has taken advantage of a Google application called “SideWiki” to post blistering remarks on pharma websites all over the internet.  While there has been some discussion amongst individuals working social media in the pharma industry about potential problems with the sidewiki application, it appears that no [...]

The blog Pharmalot, written by Ed Silverman, is coming out of retirement.  Pharmalot, a blog generally geared towards reporting of activities in the pharma/ healthcare industries, had raised the ire of some readers in response to a  piece: “A Soap Opera: Pharmaceuticals Is An Ugly Business,” posted on March 15, 2008.
As one reader wrote:
“This soap-opera [...]

Nigerian officials have apparently lost the list of victims to be compensated under Pfizer’s $75 million settlement with the Kano State government following the Trovan meningitis trials in that country.  The money was to be paid by Oct. 15, but the process has now been stretched out further, according to BNET.
Locals in the area reported [...]

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You may be wondering what happened to MyPharmaNote.com?  MPN was an attempt at providing a Digg-like service devoted solely to pharma.  While we think the idea was a good one and the site did receive a fair amount of traffic- the site was taken down.  Maintenance of the site required a [...]

So, the economy is in the gutter.  Jobs are being cut by the thousands.  Your employer is treating you like crap.  Feeling down?  You’re not alone.
But hey, look on the bright side, you now have a place online where you can share the doom and gloom with others!
JobSchmob.com offers an opportunity to unload your stories of [...]

The New York Times revealed that an influential psychiatrist who was the host of the popular public radio program “The Infinite Mind,” produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media, earned at least $1.3 million from 2000 to 2007 giving marketing lectures for drugmakers, income not mentioned on the program.
The psychiatrist and radio host, Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, is [...]

A recent visit to a DrugWonks.com blog URL resulted in an odd display…
As you can see, the lower right hand corner contains a logo for PoliticalMedia.com.
Now, DrugWonks.com is a part of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI), which describes itself as a “non-partisan, non-profit educational charity”…

Yet, DrugWonks.com appears to be hosted by [...]