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    Pink Ribbons of Opportunity

    By Cynthia Borda Despite advances in breast cancer treatments, this is still an area of unmet need. Significant opportunities exist in this market, especially for products that are targeted and that have fewer side effects. Tremendous progress has been made in treating breast cancer. Survival rat...

    By Cynthia Borda • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    Pharmaceutical companies that tap into women’s power to influence health decisions for family, friends, and communities are finding the ultimate tipping point. Picture women as the hub in the center of a wheel. The wheel represents women as influencers, as caregivers, as community leaders, and as...

    By Kelley Connors • Jan. 2, 2008
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    The 6th Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing

    Raising More than $20,000 for the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research Hosted by PharmaVoice Magazine and AXIS Healthcare Communications LLC The 6th Annual PharmaLinx Charity Golf Outing October 2006 We Extend Thanks to These Companies for Their Contributions Corporate Sponsors GOLD CORPORATE ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    A Market for Education

    No longer is patient education a static, one-dimensional tool for disseminating health information. It is a dynamic way to engage patients that ensures a win-win for all parties. The face of patient care is changing, and with it so too must the way the industry engages with this critical audience...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Strategic Planning: A Single Mapping Process Can Have Universal Applicability

    Strategic Planning: A Single Mapping Process Can Have Universal Applicability Successful brand managers ensure that the tactical plan is based on a solid strategic foundation and that this foundation is grounded on the key issues to achieve the brand’s marketing goals. ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Learning About Physicians by Listening

    Learning About Physicians by Listening Art Wilschek President of AMP Board of Directors and Executive Director, Advertising Sales, NEJM By directly asking physicians for their feedback, The Doctors’ Choice Awards offers a unique approach to determine the types of messages that reson...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Trusting the Gut -- Making Room for Predictive Understanding

    Trusting the Gut — Making Room for Predictive Understanding One could legitimately argue that greater emphasis needs to be placed on studying the initial impact of an idea — quick decisions are relevant and, in some circumstances, may be the relevant metric. ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Nonpersonal Promotion Key to an Integrated Marketing Plan

    Nonpersonal Promotion Key to an Integrated Marketing Plan Mike Weiss, VP, Sales Personal selling is vital to the success of a pharmaceutical marketing plan. Sales representatives are a critical and expensive part of most marketing plans, yet access to healthcare providers — pharmacists, ph...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Breaking the Cultural Barriers Through Effective Education

    Breaking the Cultural Barriers Through Effective Education September 2006 VIEW on Marketing Bill Eaves, VP, New Business Development, Multicultural Education Ethnic disparities in healthcare in the United States continue to be a growing problem in the 21st century. According to the U.S. Cens...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Commitment and DTC: Moving Beyond Loyalty to Long-Term Consumer/Brand Connections

    Commitment and DTC: Moving Beyond Loyalty to Long-Term Consumer/Brand Connections David Kweskin Senior VP, Practice Area Leader Advertising and Brand Performance When seeking to apply nonprescription market-research techniques to the prescription world, everyone has heard that inevitable c...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Tapping the Full Potential of the Tablet PC

    Tapping the Full Potential of the Tablet PC the e-arena Forrest King, Managing Partner JUICE Pharma Advertising Creating Powerful Content for Tablet PCs Here are seven DOs and DON’Ts for managing a remarkable emerging medium: DO think pull, not push: build your content to answer th...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    DTC Reality Check: The Actual Effects of DTC on the Physician-Patient Interaction

    DTC Reality Check: The Actual Effects of DTC on the Physician-Patient Interaction Meg Columbia-Walsh, Managing Partner/President, Consumer and e-Business, CommonHealth Brad Davidson, VP, Account Group Director, MBS/Vox, part of CommonHealth Joe Gattuso, President, MBS/Vox, and Director, St...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    China: The Promise of a Vast Market In Challenging Times

    China: The Promise of a Vast Market In Challenging Times Chandler Chicco Agency and Eastwei Relations Sydney Rubin Chandler Chicco Agency Rachel Liu Eastwei Relations Chandler Chicco Agency (CCA), with headquarters in New York and offices in London, Washington, Los Angeles, and Paris...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Positioning -- An Untapped Opportunity?

    Positioning — An Untapped Opportunity? A good brand positioning should represent a goal, the place where, as marketers, you want to take your customers. The achievement of the brand positioning should result in the ability to meet future commercial objectives. ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Letter from the Editor

    As patents for branded pharmaceuticals worth more than $59 billion in U.S. annual revenue are scheduled to expire, the next five years will be historic. Will the industry replace that revenue with new products? Will there be consolidation in the industry? Will specialty pharmaceutical companies ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    The Magic of Belief to Behavior

    The Magic of Belief to Behavior For advertising to move the needle for a brand, the industry needs to transition to a “belief to behavior” model. Brian Heffernan Chief Marketing Officer This is something you would probably never expect to hear from an advertising agency...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Table of Contents

    Letter from the Editor The Forum A 360-Degree Approach to Marketing With the Patient at the Center: As budgets start to shift away from mass-media DTC efforts and slick and glitzy advertising, marketers are going old school, in a sense. There is more focus on the healthcare providers, not just as...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Personalized Treatment Education and Feedback Can Make the Difference in Patient Adherence

    Personalized Treatment Education and Feedback Can Make the Difference in Patient Adherence Paul LeVine, VP of Analytics High-quality treatment education delivered at treatment onset is crucial to attaining prescription compliance. It can improve patient understanding ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Educational Promotional Programs: A Prescription for Success

    Educational Promotional Programs: A Prescription for Success Avant Healthcare Marketing Winston Satterlee, M.D., Medical Director Robin Eggers, Director Deborah Wood, President and CEO Tiffany Shrider, Marketing Manager, Analytics Charles Elliott, Executive Director, Marketing and Adver...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Compliance: The Sincerest Form of Healthcare

    Compliance: The Sincerest Form of Healthcare Adherence Initiatives Pharmaceutical companies are aware of adherence challenges and are beginning to spend significant amounts of their marketing budgets on patient-adherence programs. The list below illustrates some of the more common ini...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    Managing the Logistics of a Product Launch

    Managing the Logistics of a Product Launch Nader Naeymi-Rad Senior VP, Brand Management Practice Product launches are extremely complex. The ins and outs of managing launch logistics cannot easily be distilled into a short list of dos and don’ts, but armed ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    E-Media

    New Electronic and Web-based Applications, Sites, and Technologies InfoMedics’ Treatment Educator Improves Patient Understanding and Increases Brand Loyalty InfoMedics Inc. has released Treatment Educator, a tool for improving prescription compliance through patient education and treatment unders...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    On the Calendar

    Your Source for Life-Sciences Events and Conference Information Professional education is an ongoing endeavor for most executives. PharmaVOICE has partnerships with every major conference provider serving the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE is distributed at more than 150 industry events a ye...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    What's New

    New Healthcare-related Products, Services, and Companies Scientific Advantage Launches MSL Outsourcing Subsidiary The new division addresses client requests for MSL professionals. Scientific Advantage LLC has formed MSL Advantage LLC to fill MSL staffing positions within pharmaceutical, biotech, ...

    By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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    PharmaOutlet

    Patient Power: Why Your Daughter’s Website Can Move A Market The move away from direct to consumer and toward direct to community Social networking has become a major force driving media to reinvent itself and find a way to survive in a world where mass media no longer exists. Our children’s addi...

    By Anthony Manson • Jan. 2, 2008