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Prominent India-based healthcare agency, Medulla Communications, launches APAC expansion

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Led by seasoned marketing and agency leader Taffy Ledesma from Singapore, Asia Pacific growth is expected to surpass its existing core business in India.

Viagra takes home the Pharma Grand Prix at 2025 Cannes Lions

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The winning work from Ogilvy Shanghai answered the question of how to promote Viagra in a country where pharma ads are banned and intimacy is considered a taboo subject.

As Bluesky grows, opportunities abound for pharma brands

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The likes of Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca have Bluesky accounts, though none are posting.

Pfizer moves creative from IPG to Publicis after just 10 months

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Pharma giant consolidates global creative business with Publicis months after splitting duties between the two holding companies last May; IPG retains PR and health briefs.

Global forecast: Pharma and healthcare brands shift their ad strategies

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Campaign explores how pharma and healthcare brands project the year ahead in spend and media channels—particularly in these trying economic times.

How a pharma company created an in-house creative team from scratch

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Unlike many brands that take a hybrid approach, this company is committed to a 100% in-housing model. The GM of marketing tells us how it’s done.

GSK updates brand identity following renewed purpose

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REBRANDING EXCERCISES: Having spun off its consumer business, the healthcare giant is looking to refocus itself as a biopharma innovator.

Pharma in focus: how the health sector can maintain its glow post-pandemic

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At a roundtable hosted by Campaign and WE Communications, communications and marketing leaders from the healthcare industry discussed how they are responding to unprecedented levels of public scrutiny and why establishing trust among patients and stakeholders has never been more critical.

Lions Health: 2021 Pharma, health and wellness winners

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A tech innovation for patients with cystic fibrosis took home the Grand Prix in Pharma, while two Grand Prix were awarded in health & wellness.

AstraZeneca's vaccine comms: Why 'slick and corporate' isn't always best

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The AstraZeneca vaccine is a good jab let down by poor communications. Or so the narrative goes.

Sanofi puts agencies on alert in global media pitch

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Pharmaceuticals giant spends estimated €900m a year.

Pharma winners: Cannes Lions 2018

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India and Australia take home Pharma Golds, with Che Proximity's The Hearing Test in Disguise winning three Lions and TBWA\India's Blink to Speak winning a Health Grand Prix for Good.

Why a niche pharma publisher is getting business from BMW

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As revenue from blockbuster drugs dries up, brands and media in the pharma space have had to adjust. Sherlynn Tan of Singapore-based MIMS explains what one media owner has done.

How GSK used Alibaba data to reach a new nasal-spray buyer

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Only one-tenth of China's allergy sufferers will choose a nasal spray versus antihistamines or decongestants. Here's how Mediacom and GSK sniffed out a solution.

Omnicom healthcare-comms unit CDM sets up in Tokyo

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Global ambitions of Japan-based clients spur creation of CDM Tokyo, a joint venture with FleishmanHillard.

Pfizer's vaccine ad is a blast from the past

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Pharma company "derives" a nostalgic ad from a hit 1970s Hong Kong movie.

Age-related disease: A great challenge, and brands can help

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Rethinking the way that older adults are portrayed and marketed to can help nurture a more positive definition of later life stages.

Cannes 2016: Asia's Health Lions winners

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India wins two golds; New Zealand, Japan and Hong Kong one each.