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World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 10, 2022
CPG marketers are trying to maintain market share amid price increases and smaller product sizes, leading to a more significant jump in consumerism. But, in pharma marketing, the changes affect every product category.
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 7, 2022
According to a 2021 study , 1.1 million deaths—including one in two of those under 65, thanks in large part to our abysmal health care system—”would have been averted if the U.S. had the mortality rates of other wealthy nations.
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World of DTC Marketing
JULY 26, 2022
Quick Read: Amazon will dramatically expand its healthcare reach with its planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical, a primary care provider with 188 offices in 25 markets nationwide but are they making a strategic move or a mistake?
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 12, 2022
PhRMA is lying to protect its profits, and the lies have reached a new height as the Senate moved to adopt modest drug pricing negotiation measures in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 8, 2022
Consumers have changed their shopping behavior due to the pandemic, and some of those changes are relevant for pharma marketers. The days of someone seeing an ad for a prescription drug and rushing to ask their doctor about it have replaced the quest for more information, usually online.
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 3, 2022
At first, the opportunity to join a small biotech startup sounds excellent. Smaller staff usually means less bureaucracy and being on the ground floor of a potentially financially rewarding career. But there are risks.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 21, 2022
The pandemic is changing consumer behavior, and there is zero chance they will return to their carefree spending ways. Using the same ads to advertise prescription drugs repeatedly is a waste of money and doesn’t lead to sales.
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 1, 2022
Democrats have been campaigning for 30 years on promises they’d let Medicare directly negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. Now, after the majority of voters want reduced costs for their prescription drugs, the bill seems ready to pass despite record pharma lobbying.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 8, 2022
In 2020, over 75% of AbbVie’s’ sales were made to American consumers, yet only 1% of AbbVie’s’ income was reported in the United States for tax purposes.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 15, 2022
To address the “retention” problem, pharma companies are paying employees exorbitant salaries. The problem with that system is that people do whatever they need to to “hold onto” their high-paying jobs and become employees who are content not to excel.
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World of DTC Marketing
JULY 27, 2022
A federal appeals court rejected Pfizer’s challenge to a U.S. anti-kickback law that the drugmaker said prevented it from helping heart failure patients, many with low incomes, afford the medicine that costs $225,000 annually.
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World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 2, 2022
A Gizmodo investigation into some of the nation’s biggest data brokers found more than two dozen promoting access to datasets containing digital information on millions of pregnant and potentially pregnant people across the country.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 13, 2022
Digital pharmacies seem to be springing up everywhere. Allowing patients to order medications online and get delivery via Fed-Ex or the mail does offer time savings. Still, without a significant value (lower costs), they may not find an audience.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 3, 2022
The continued emphasis on digital health is overrated but digital health will become an integral part of total patient care. To become a vital part of patient care, digital health providers need to provide the medical community with studies that show their value to patient outcomes.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 18, 2022
According to a STAT analysis of hundreds of financial filings, the CEOs of approximately 300 health care companies collectively took home more than $4.5 billion in 2021. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals CEO Leonard Schleifer represented 10% of that total on his own, pulling in an astounding $453 million.
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World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 15, 2022
The great resignation has not affected pharma because the jobs within the industry pay very well and most positions and employees like the benefit of having a steady job with good money.
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 16, 2022
The new Inflation Bill will not reduce healthcare costs in the U.S. An analysis predicts that by 2030, 48.9% of adults in the United States will be obese, and 24.2% will be severely obese.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 6, 2022
Endpoint News reported “Three major drug distributors are off the hook for what may have been a $2.5 billion payment after a federal judge found them not liable for the opioid epidemic in parts of West Virginia, one of the hardest-hit areas of the country.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 12, 2022
Imbruvica, a cancer medication, carries a wholesale price of about $16,000 a month. Patients on Medicare who don’t qualify for low-income subsidies could see out-of-pocket costs for the drug of over $12,000. Isn’t it time for Congress to finally pass legislation that helps patients?
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 17, 2022
Worldwide obesity rates have tripled since 1975, with 650 million adults obese in 2016, according to the World Health Organization. In 2019, the OECD declared that developed countries’ plans to tackle the problem largely failed.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 27, 2022
Approximately 96 million American adults—more than 1 in 3 —have prediabetes. Of those with prediabetes, more than 80% don’t know they have it. Prediabetes increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke ( Source: CDC).
World of DTC Marketing
AUGUST 14, 2022
If you follow the hype around telehealth, you would think it will save healthcare. Telehealth does have a future as PART of healthcare, but it won’t replace the benefit of seeing a patient in person and being able to diagnose a health problem. There it is again.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 29, 2022
Suppose you’re on Facebook or Instagram, and Meta has determined you may be interested in cancer treatments.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 22, 2022
Advanced economies typically spend about 10% of GDP on keeping their citizens in good health, a share that is rising as populations age. America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. That is unsustainable.
World of DTC Marketing
MAY 24, 2022
Cerebral will stop writing prescriptions for Adderall, Ritalin, and other controlled substances to new ADHD patients as concerns grow about telehealth companies’ prescribing practices.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 20, 2022
A new analysis released Wednesday by Patients for Affordable Drugs estimates that pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. have raised drug prices 1,186 times so far this year. But they’re not alone. Health insurers in individual marketplaces across 13 states and Washington D.C.
World of DTC Marketing
JULY 5, 2022
Imagine a medicine that reduced the death rate of breast cancer and risk of recurrent breast cancer by 50% lowered the risks of colon cancer and type 2 diabetes by two-thirds, and those of heart disease, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s’ disease by 40%.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 20, 2022
Pharma DTC marketing is unique, and drug marketers need to think more about the journey from awareness to requesting an Rx. In addition, the patient journey is different for each product category and audience. Some will lead to more online research, while others may not.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 1, 2022
Five of America’s largest health insurers reported more than $11bn in profits in the second quarter – a decline from the same period last year when the Covid-19 pandemic helped drive sky-high profits yet they are having more of a say on patients’ treatments even when HCPs disagree.
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 27, 2022
Mental illnesses are common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (52.9 million in 2020). Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe.
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 5, 2022
American healthcare is the most expensive globally, but it’s not close to being the best. Our healthcare system has become like a mass-market retailer, in the door to treat the problem and out the door with an Rx or other treatment recommendation.
World of DTC Marketing
JANUARY 28, 2022
A cancer medication called Xtandi costs $189,800 per year and was developed with taxpayer dollars. The U.S. government has a responsibility for ending the exclusive patents that give them their profits.
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 13, 2022
Sixty percent of employees in a recent survey reported experiencing healthcare cost increases that outpaced inflation in the past three years, and 63 percent expect that trend to continue, signaling potential cost challenges in the future.
World of DTC Marketing
MAY 2, 2022
The top executive at McKinsey & Company appeared before Congress to answer for the consulting firm’s role in fanning the opioid crisis and came under intense criticism from lawmakers.
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 28, 2022
Oxford researchers say they have confirmed that alcohol is a direct cause of cancer, emphasizing how their findings reinforce the need to lower levels of alcohol consumption in the population for cancer prevention. The question is will the healthcare community do anything about these findings?
World of DTC Marketing
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The mortality rate from lung cancer has dropped in recent decades—by 56% in men from 1990 to 2019 and by 32% in women from 2002 to 2019. In recent years, early detection and treatment improvements have helped boost the 3-year survival rate for lung cancer from 21% in 2004 to 31% in 2015 through 2017.
World of DTC Marketing
MARCH 17, 2022
I admire President Biden for trying for a cancer cure moonshot but unfortunately, cancer is not just one disease; it’s many with a range of different causes, physiologies, and treatments.
World of DTC Marketing
MAY 16, 2022
If You’re Short On Time: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s novel treatment for diabetes. The drug led to impressive blood sugar and body weight drops in clinical trials.
World of DTC Marketing
MAY 17, 2022
Just 13% of people trust the pharma companies they interact with. 68% say the interactions feel transactional. Only a third agree that organizations know their communication preferences.
World of DTC Marketing
APRIL 25, 2022
Gadget firms — starting with Apple and now Fitbit, which Google owns — are selling wearable devices that check heartbeat rhythms and alert users when something is out of sync, according to KHN.com.
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