Wondering what to do with printouts showing disappointing study results? How about business cards from clinical trial investigators who insist on setting the record straight? Or letters from FDA officials saying your advertising is misleading? Now, you can keep them all in one safe spot by using the Vytorin/Zetia personal organizer. There are convenient pockets [...]

Need to wash away the evidence of an insider stock sale? How about that grimy feeling that comes with peeking at disappointing clinical-trial data before anyone else? No worries. Just attach one of these post-modern Vytorin soap dispensers to your office wall and, magically, you can have clean hands once again. This is, by the [...]

Worried about the rate of Avandia prescriptions? Troubled by patents set to expire? Concerned that additional Paxil suicide reports may emerge from court? Uncertain where the next big drug will come from? No worries, Andy. All you have to do is ring the marketing department and ask them to send one of these attractive stress [...]

There’s a certain irony in this, wouldn’t you say? The drugmaker is under the gun from docs, regulators and, especially, investors, mostly thanks to the travails of its diabetes drug. So what do the marketing folks do? They instruct their sales reps to distribute these little stress balls stamped with the Avandia logo. Given recent [...]

Of all the tchotchkes and other freebies handed out by drug reps, a pen seems so, well, ordinary. As a result, a pen is unlikely to have much, if any, impact on prescribing habits (except, perhaps, a Viagra pen, which presumably never runs out of ink). But pens bearing the Tygacil logo and orange-and-black tiger [...]

What better way for docs to cleanse themselves of the controversy surrounding the antipsychotic than to rinse with this handy foam wash? It’s really very simple - write a Zyprexa scrip and then scrub furiously. Traces of improper marketing or hidden side effect data should race down the drain like so many germs.

The perfect device to remind you when to take another sleeping pill, and then it helps you keep track of how long you’ve stared at the ceiling counting beavers. Let’s see, it’s 2 am already…I took that pill how many hours ago?

Handing out pens to docs is nearly as old as the oldest profession. Merck, however, raises the bar on ingenuity with its latest giveaway: a Januvia pen that not only can write a scrip, but has a built-in supply of Post-Its so your favorite doc can remember….whatever. Although Merck reps, obviously, hope the doc will [...]

It’s really very simple. Just hold her tight and then……pull off her head. Treat her right, and she’ll help you with any prescription you want.
This pen was picked up at a free drug lunch by a practicing US pulmonologist doing volunteer work in Guatemala earlier this year. The drug, Tibonella, an estrogen that’s marketed [...]

Here we have a stylish Rozerem sleep aid, designed to help one tune out all those frustrating distractions. Useful during quiet or noisy moments. Perfect for disguising yourself as The Green Hornet at all-night parties (you weren’t going to sleep, anyway, were you?) May also be used to dim the lights on prescription drug ads [...]