Patient Communities

Remedy Health buys HealthCentral, promises broader ad reach

Marc Iskowitz November 29, 2011

Health information site HealthCentral has been acquired by Remedy Health, a multimedia provider of content and tools designed to help people manage disease, the firms said today.

WEGO Health launches online video venture

Matthew Arnold July 05, 2011

WEGO Health is launching an ad-supported online video network, dubbed WEGOHealth.tv, that will feature "conversation-style videos" featuring its medical subject matter expert "health activists."

Orphan patient communities grow online

Marc Iskowitz February 23, 2011

Specialty pharma companies are launching online hubs tuned to the needs of the orphan community.

GSK and HGS put the 'us' in lupus, ahead of Benlysta FDA decision

Ben Comer January 27, 2011

GlaxoSmithKline and Human Genome Sciences launched a patient community for lupus sufferers and their friends and family, in anticipation of an FDA decision on Benlysta in March.

Patient advocacy influential in drug development, says panel

Ben Comer December 08, 2010

Patient advocacy groups are an increasingly valuable resource for pharma manufacturers and FDA throughout the drug development process, since they provide, among other things, a crucial perspective, according to a New York Pharma Forum panel last week.

In "Wild West" of Facebook sites, snakeoil salesmen abound

Matthew Arnold November 03, 2010

Social networks are a "Wild West" of medical misinformation, a study has found. More than one in four comments on Facebook diabetes communities is promotional in nature, generally for unapproved products, Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers said.

WebMD launches social networking venture

Matthew Arnold March 10, 2010

WebMD is launching a social networking platform, dubbed WebMD Health Exchange, aimed at giving users more control and connecting them with experts to talk about health issues in real time.