Say good morning with Tecta and help say good night to GERD. Brand name: Tecta Generic name/category: Pantoprazole Company: Nycomed Country/Market: Canada, North America Indication(s)/use: reduction of gastric acid due to duodenal ulcer, gastric ulcer, reflux esophagitis, symptomatic gastro-esophageal reflux disease (acid regurgitation and heartburn) and helicobacter pylori associated with duodenal ulcer Target: Healthcare Professionals (HCP) Tagline: Once-a-day for symptomatic GERD Medium: Print ad Size/duration: Single-page Publication/Aired: March 2010 To see all of this brand’s ads on AdPharm, click here Click here for the full-sized ad and details in the AdPharm gallery Subscription-based AdPharm gallery is the largest keyword searchable online pharmaceutical advertising gallery.

Let life go on those in need. Donate blood. Your help is what is missing

Description: In this video, we see Todd Nicholson, a man who was in a car accident that left him in a wheel chair. Throughout this video, he lists many obstacles he had to overcome to be a paralympic athlete while doing chin-ups. In this viral effort, Pfizer Canada pledged to give $5 to the Canadian Paralympic Team each time someone forwarded the link to this video to someone else

Description: In this video, we see Todd Nicholson, a man who was in a car accident that left him in a wheel chair. Throughout this video, he lists many obstacles he had to overcome to be aparalympic athlete while doing chin-ups. In this viral effort, Pfizer Canada pledged to give $5 to the Canadian Paralympic Team each time someone forwarded the link to this video to someone else

A disease that may cause burning, stabbing, searing pain Brand name: Zostavax Generic name/category: Zoster Vaccine Live Company: Merck Country/Market: Canada, North America Indication(s)/use: herpes zoster (known as Shingles) Target: healthcare professional (HCP) Tagline: n/a Medium: Print ad Size/duration: Single-page Publication/Aired: March 2010 To see all of this brand’s ads on AdPharm, click here Click here for the full-sized ad and details in the AdPharm gallery Subscription-based AdPharm gallery is the largest keyword searchable online pharmaceutical advertising gallery.

Cervarix. Now available for Canadian women

The Daily Telegraph in the UK has a story today claiming that a 1951 outbreak of hallucinations and dementia in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit was not (as everyone thought ) an example of ergot poisoning. No, according to some guy who’s writing a book, it was. . .a secret LSD experiment

Leave allergies in the dust. Brand name: Zyrtec Generic name/category: Cetirizine Company: McNeil-PPC Country/Market: USA, North America Indication(s)/use: relieves symptoms of hay fever or other upper respiratory allergies such as runny nose, sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and itching of the nose or throat Target: Consumers (DTC) Tagline: love the air Medium: Print ad Size/duration: Single-page Publication/Aired: April 2010 To see all of this brand’s ads on AdPharm, click here Click here for the full-sized ad and details in the AdPharm gallery Subscription-based AdPharm gallery is the largest keyword searchable online pharmaceutical advertising gallery.

Celebrate Viagra’s 11th birthday. Agency: Taxi , Canada Executive Creative Director: Steve Mykolyn Creative Director: Michael Mayes Art Director: Ryan Semeniuk Writer: Nikki Jobson Photographer: Clinton Hussey Brand name: Viagra Generic name/category: Sildenafil citrate, PDE5 inhibitors, Citrates Company: Pfizer Country/Market: Canada, North America Indication(s)/use: Erectile Dysfunction (ED) Target: Trade / sales force Medium: party blower Size/duration: promotional item Publication/Aired: 2010 Source: Ads of the World To see all of this brand’s ads on AdPharm, click here Click here for the full-sized ad and details in the AdPharm gallery Subscription-based AdPharm gallery is the largest keyword searchable online pharmaceutical advertising gallery

If you want to know why people continue to speculate in biotech stocks, just take a look at the stairsteppy last few days of trading in Intermune (ITMN). Last Thursday it was at $15; now it’s at $38. And all you have to do to cash in on these moves is read the FDA’s mind! That’s not a money-making proposition, in case anyone thinks I’m advocating it.