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Tick Tock re Tik Tok and FDA’s OPDP

Eye on FDA

The emergence of pharma on TikTok signals another facet in the evolution of healthcare communications and a similar pattern. Communicators and marketers would love black and white answers about concrete platforms. And they believe that the principles laid out to date cover pretty much any communications platform.

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FDA OPDP Look Back at 2021 – The Yawning Gap

Eye on FDA

As noted in the past, there are two primary means for understanding the agency’s latest thinking with respect to promotional communications from pharmaceutical companies – the content and pattern of enforcement and the issuance of guidance documents to shed light on the parameters that exist.

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Bridging the healthcare digital divide: a gradual approach to adopting ePI

European Pharmaceutical Review

These standardised documents provide meticulously curated and scientifically approved information. 7 Access to digital communications also remains a challenge in some Member States especially for those groups at risk of poverty and social exclusion (7.6 percent as EU average with some Member States as high as 25 percent).

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Time for FDA’s OPDP to Fill the Gaps on Digital and Social Media

Eye on FDA

In the now distant past, enforcement from this office, then called the Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC) and later re-named OPDP, was robust, with the office issuing scores of letters a year (156 were issued in 1998). One of them was about the appropriate use of links.

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NHC’s comments in response to the 2025 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP)

Putting Patients First Blog

Failure to Reconcile (FTR) Process: The NHC views the proposed changes to the FTR process positively as safeguarding consumers’ health coverage access, particularly for those with chronic conditions, by enhancing education, aligning with consumer protection principles, and ensuring clarity and accessibility in communication strategies.

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Solutions to Increase Low Libido in Those with Hashimoto’s

The Thyroid Pharmacist

A few years ago, I had a few clients with documented elevations in prolactin, and I have seen that lowering prolactin levels can help with reducing thyroid antibodies. Studies have, however, documented that bromocriptine, a medication used to lower prolactin levels, can reduce flares in lupus, another autoimmune condition. 2009-0041.

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FDA sketches a path for patient-focused drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the fourth and final chapter in a series of guidance documents designed to support patient-focused drug development. The draft guidance, released on March 5, is open for comments until May 7, after which it will replace an earlier 2009 guidance for the industry.