Nov. 29, 2021 –With little fanfare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently moved to allow licensed pharmacists to dispense Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-authorized COVID-19 therapeutics directly to patients, without a physician prescription. This step, taken by publishing an amendment to a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, […]
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July 6, 2020 – Bayer AG, Merck KGaA, Novartis, Pfizer and Vertex are joining other major advertisers in support of a July Facebook ad boycott (#StopHateForProfit), a campaign started by six civil rights organizations – the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color Of Change, Free Press and Common Sense – that calls on corporate advertisers to […]
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July 2, 2018 – The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its second Untitled Letter in 2018 to Pfizer Inc., claiming that a direct-to-consumer (DTC) video for the ESTRING® (estradiol vaginal ring), posted on the michiganmomliving.com site, as well as prepared Q&As provided to interview participants (and submitted to the agency under Form […]
Read moreOct. 17, 2016 – In a recent guest commentary in PM360, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Executive Director John Kamp praised Pfizer for its opioid agreement with the City of Chicago and called on the pharmaceuticals industry to engage now in the fight to help stem the tide of opioid addiction. In the PM360 piece, “In […]
Read moreJuly 8, 2016 – As organized medicine, politicians and the public seek to reverse the scourge of opioid addiction, Pfizer made a move that shows a good-faith effort to become a part of the problem’s solution. The company signed an agreement June 30 with the City of Chicago to follow a written code of conduct […]
Read moreJan. 25, 2016 – The Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) kicked off 2016 with a Jan. 14 Untitled Letter to Hospira Inc., a Pfizer company, citing a video posted on YouTube that presents information about what to expect from Hospira’s Precedex™. OPDP states in the letter that the video “is false or misleading because […]
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