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		<title>Could the FDA’s “Bad Ad” program be coming to a patient recruitment campaign near you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the “Bad Ad Program,” an effort to have doctors and healthcare professionals around the country report what they believe to be misleading drug ads. Evidently, the initiative is to help the FDA’s understaffed and overwhelmed Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC) with more surveillance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qdsglobal.com/blog/2010/06/23/could-the-fda%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbad-ad%e2%80%9d-program-be-coming-to-a-patient-recruitment-campaign-near-you/</link>
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		<title>When friends ask about “reform.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends who know I work with the pharmaceutical industry quiz me often about what healthcare reform means for our business.  It’s a loaded question, and one that can generate a slew of follow-up questions. Here’s what I know:  According to the Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (www.ciscrp.org) and the US Census, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qdsglobal.com/blog/2010/04/12/when-friends-ask-about-%e2%80%9creform-%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Patient recruitment advertising takes a creative step forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the vast advertising community, it&#8217;s often difficult to convey what we do as an ad agency.  Heck, my father still doesn&#8217;t really understand what I do. Our agency doesn&#8217;t create funny beer ads, or promote a cool sports line.  We don&#8217;t hype banks or help sell food.  And while our clients are in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qdsglobal.com/blog/2009/12/17/patient-recruitment-advertising-takes-a-creative-step-forward/</link>
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		<title>Interesting timing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two big developments in the pharmaceutical world of social media.  Here we are today with the first qd blog entry, while at the same time the FDA is holding a hearing on the use of the internet and social media in the promotion of approved medical products. http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/CDER/ucm184250.htm Since we live in the “pre-approval” medical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qdsglobal.com/blog/2009/11/12/interestingtiming/</link>
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