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 Co-Marketing

Business briefs: Lundbeck, FDA, Tower Watson and National Business Group Study, Merck

March 07, 2013

Lundbeck and Otsuka deepen their Abilify co-promotion partnership; study finds FDA clinical trial rule isn't sticking; another study confirms that employees are paying more for health insurance as employers pay less; Merck appoints new R&D chief
 

Company news: GSK, Salix

November 08, 2012

GlaxoSmithKline returned marketing rights on epilepsy drug Horizant to XenoPort effective April 30, 2013.
 

Company news: Auxilium and GSK; J&J's Janssen

May 22, 2012

Auxilium inked a co-promote deal with GSK on its Testim 1% testosterone gel for the US.
 

Company news: WebMD, Wiley-Blackwell and Eli Lilly/Boehringer Ingelheim

March 07, 2012

WebMD the Magazine is now part of the iPad app world.
 

Amylin, parting ways with Lilly, plans for extra sales reps

November 08, 2011

Amylin said it will hire 365 sales reps to make up for Eli Lilly's departure from commercial activities, once the firm takes full control of the exenatide diabetes franchise in the US this month.
 

Vertex versus Goliaths in HCV drug duel

May 23, 2011

Vertex has succeeded in bringing one heck of a new drug to market in Incivek (in-SEE-veck, or telaprevir), a hepatitis C drug 15 years in the making which promises to cut treatment time in half. Selling the drug against the combined might of Roche and Merck could be nearly as tricky.
 

Roche to co-promote Merck's Victrelis in US

May 17, 2011

Roche will help promote Merck's newly approved hepatitis C drug Victrelis (boceprevir) under a strategic partnership that may help bolster the firms' chances in an upcoming market share battle. The agreement stunned Wall Street, since Merck and Roche already sell rival versions of a standard hepatitis C treatment.
 

For Tradjenta, a tough climb, and for Lilly, a vital one

May 05, 2011

Lilly/Boehringer Ingelheim's third-to-market DPP-4 inhibitor Tradjenta, approved earlier this week for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, faces an uphill battle for market share against Merck's entrenched market leader Januvia and BMS/AstraZeneca's Onglyza.
 

Teva, P&G partner to form global OTC behemoth

March 24, 2011

Teva is partnering with Procter & Gamble in an OTC drug marketing joint venture that will boast annual sales of more than $1 billion -- and which could ultimately be worth four times that, the companies say.
 
  

Web Exclusive

Angelina Jolie's fearless but flawed message

Paul Oestreicher, Ph.D. May 17, 2013

Angelina Jolie's story raises important questions about education, outreach and access—but her nod to holistic treatments is less helpful
 

Podcasts

How to engage even the busiest physicians

March 04, 2013

Sponsored by TRUE Health + Wellness. The increasingly demanding schedules of healthcare professionals continue to narrow the window of opportunity for pharma sales teams, and, as a result, marketers are focusing more on non-personal promotion. However, there's a lot more to it than simply bombarding physicians with brand messages, as Anne Stroup, Managing Director at TRUE Health + Wellness, explains to MM&M's James Chase in this special podcast presentation.
 

2013 Hall of Fame Inductees

An entertaining look at the extraordinary lives and careers of the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame's 2013 inductees: Peter Frishauf, Dorothy Philips and David Labson. Clips produced by JUICE Pharma. 

Slideshows

MAHF 2013: Honors Class

A gallery of images from the 2013 Medical Advertising Hall of Fame induction dinner