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Consumers want convenient, online doctor-finding tools

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When it comes to pharma marketing, historically companies have had to either market direct to consumers — and trust them to find a doctor and bring up the company’s product with them — or to send sales reps to doctors — and hope they had the right mix of potential customers among their patients.

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Pharma Tuesday Stuff

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After a year of pandemic-delayed medical tr eatments, doctors are seeing more cases of advanced illnesses. Johnson & Johnson privately contacted other drugmakers producing COVID-19 vaccines to join a study into the potential risk of blood clots. Pfizer could sell $24 billion in Covid Vaccine this year.

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Boris Johnson slammed for saying “greed” is behind UK vaccine success

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The Prime Minister reportedly told Conservative backbench MPs on a Zoom call that “capitalism” and “greed” was behind the success of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, before backtracking after realising he had made a blunder and telling attendees to forget the comments. " But he’s wrong.

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Telehealth concerns rise

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First, people aren’t always completely honest with their doctors. A recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open found that 60 to 80 percent of patients have been less than fully forthright with their doctors at some point which can be worse with telehealth. What can pharma do?

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Pharma is hiring

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IN BRIEF: Pharma companies have been posting jobs on LinkedIn almost every day. While most offices remain closed pharma is preparing for the launch of new products and has to have the infrastructure to ensure a successful launch. Yet, too many pharma companies don’t get social media snapshots of what’s being said.

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The immediate future of DTC

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Yes, telehealth has grown substantially, but that’s because patients are afraid of going into doctor’s offices. Once vaccination levels reach critical mass, people will once again return to their physician’s offices. Some are, but most aren’t. First, let’s dispel a recent topic: telehealth.

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Edelman Trust Barometer raises questions

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3hree: Those with higher levels of trust in healthcare are more likely to be proactive about their general health, vaccinated against COVID-19, supportive of public health measures over personal freedom, and accepting of changing recommendations from healthcare officials than are low-trusting respondents. But do doctors trust the system?