Viagra commercials are generally awful, particularly the "Viva Viagra" ones with the guys sitting around grinning widely as they play music and sing about their erections. (The best thing about those ads is the name Copyranter gave the band: the Whiskey Dicks.) Cialis ads are no better. Maybe it's j...

Biotech, cancer, Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Off the coast of the Bahamas, in sea grass more than a half-mile deep, San Diego-based Nereus Pharmaceuticals found a fungus that may be the key ingredient for an innovative new cancer drug. This will be a key year for gathering evidence that will either ...

Biotech, Drugs, Life Sciences Stewart Lyman wrote: Seattle’s biotech community used to be among the top-ranked in the nation. But as some 2,500 layoffs have piled up in the local biotech sector since 2002, Seattle has tumbled in the rankings. We need to face up to this fact first, before we ca...

I can NOT believe what I have just read on the internet.  CAN NOT BELIEVE that someone from the Associated Press has decided to call my disease a “murky disease” … you see, I have Fibromyalgia , and it sucks.  As if this disease now needs to take another blow to the chest. Now mo...

Last year a lower-court judge ruled that Nigerian families who claim that Pfizer used their children as guinea pigs to test new drugs had to file their suits in Nigeria.  But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York ruled on Friday that they can sue the pharmaceutical giant in U...

Over the past 20 months, Pfizer's global PR chief, Ray Kerins re-organized the company's press relations office to "manage" journalists, according to this 3-minute Ad Age video. [Hat tip to PharmaGossip.] "I blame myself and those of us in the industry for the bad reputation that the pharmaceutical ...

Your note on the RCP meeting got me thinking... ...recent pharma sales force reductions... ...a sudden rush to settle past off-label marketing investigations in the US at the same time as off-label promotion is to be accepted as legal by the FDA... What is going on? Fortunately, Phoni Pharm. CEO Joh...

Biotech, acquisitions, Autoimmune Luke Timmerman wrote: Pfizer rocked the business world yesterday with its $68 billion bid to acquire Madison, NJ-based Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), and the ripple effect was felt here in the Northwest. Nobody in town has a bigger stake in this deal than Seattle-based Trubion ...

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Western Union (WU), Recession Yesterday, several of America's largest and most well-know companies cut people at an alarming rate. The liquidation of Circuit City could put a total of 30,000 employees onto the street. Pfizer...

Biotech, Hepatitis C, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: An early peek at data from Anadys Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ANDS) suggests the company may have a promising new drug in the works for hepatitis C. The San Diego-based biotech is announcing results today from the first eight patients with the c...