May 11, 2011
Last week I was fortunate enough to catch a segment of the PBS News Hour that featured a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Museum called “Health for Sale“. The exhibit is comprised of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) of yesteryear – … Continue reading →
May 12, 2010
"Paging Dr. Draper! Paging Dr. Draper! We have an ad in the examination room that requires your attention, STAT!" The PA system goes quiet. In the waiting room, patients shuffle their feet nervously, waiting, waiting, waiting…. Dr. Draper enters the … Continue reading →
September 21, 2009
At the opening of the 20th Food and Drug Law Institute Conference Annual Advertising and Promotion Conference, CDER's Dr. Janet Woodcock stood in for Dr. Margaret Hamburg who was said to have had a scheduling conflict due to a meeting … Continue reading →
July 30, 2009
As is well known, FDA's DDMAC has stubbornly refused to deliver any guidance for industry and for advertisers on what is and is not acceptable in communications on the Internet. Instead, the agency has repeatedly stated that it is not … Continue reading →
April 20, 2009
Last week, the New York Times carried an article "FDA Rules on Ads Sow Confusion as Applied to the Web" that addresses the call by the agency to issue 14 letters regarding 45 brands based on the lack of risk … Continue reading →