Remove tag covid-19-pandemic
article thumbnail

Pharma running online ads on vaccine misinformation sites

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: More than 42,000 programmatic ads from 4,315 brands are running on websites spouting misinformation about the vaccine and COVID over the past year. Included in the programmatic ad errors is Pfizer, who developed a leading COVID vaccine. When will pharma stop using programmatic online ads? Restoring trust and accountability.

article thumbnail

Grand Rounds April 14, 2023: RECOVER in Action – Status of Clinical Trial Protocols (Kanecia Zimmerman, PhD, MD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

RECOVER has used cohort data to identify major symptom clusters and develop 5 platform protocols that will investigator priority symptom clusters and their causes; test known and novel interventions across domains; and evaluate treatments to improve Long COVID symptoms. It’s all over the place. No, there are no signs PASC is going away.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Grand Rounds October 28, 2022: The HERO (Healthcare Worker Exposure Response & Outcomes) Program: An Online Community to Support Observational Studies, Randomized Trials, and Long-Term Safety Surveillance (Emily O’Brien, PhD, FAHA; Russell Rothman, MD, MPP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

HERO Registry; HERO TOGETHER; Hydroxychloroquine; COVID-19; PCORI; PCORnet. On March 21, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, PCORI contacted leadership at Duke Clinical Research Institute and PCORnet and a decision was made to focus on the space of healthcare workers. Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Trials 130
article thumbnail

Medicare savings won’t make a dent in healthcare costs

World of DTC Marketing

A study put a price tag on American’s bad eating habits: $50 billion a year in health care costs, attributable to cardiometabolic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Then there is the cost of people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID. Then there is the cost of unhealthy Americans.

Drugs 222
article thumbnail

Healthcare doesn’t give a damn about patients

World of DTC Marketing

Pfizer, for instance, hiked the cost of its leukemia medication Besponsa again this month, bringing its per-vial price tag to $21,056. “This is PPfizer’sfourth hike on the cancer drug during the Covid-19 pandemic—even as the company enjoys record-shattering profits from its vaccine,” “the analysis notes.

Packaging 183
article thumbnail

WHY PM MODI ADDRESSED, INDIA AS THE PHARMACY OF THE WORLD

Pharma Tutor

We have exported life-saving medicines and medical equipment to over 150 countries during the initial phase of the pandemic. We have also exported more than 65 million doses of COVID vaccines to nearly 100 countries this year. Fri, 11/19/2021 - 16:19. Pharmapedia.

article thumbnail

Scientists and medics turn to TikTok to reassure public on vaccine safety

pharmaphorum

Tik Tok is unlikely to spring to mind as a source of reliable information about complex issues, but scientists are using it to fly the flag for COVID-19 vaccines and other health topics. She told the BBC that her approach on TikTok is “come for the entertainment, but stay for the science.”