The Day of New London, Conn., has a nice article on Dr. Peter Rost’s bid for FDA commissioner. Here’s an excerpt referencing our interview with Peter: If Pfizer Inc. were to describe its worst nightmare, it might very well be seeing former company whistleblower Peter Rost become commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Rost Watch'
eDrugSearch.com’s Rost interview cited in Connecticut’s The Day
December 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Drug safety · FDA · Pharma bloggers · Rost Watch
Q&A with Dr. Peter Rost, eDrugSearch.com’s choice for FDA commissioner
December 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that we are delighted about the prospect of a new FDA commissioner in 2009 — one who we hope will put the interests of the people above those of large pharmaceutical companies. We have also been pleasantly surprised to see the groundswell of public [...]
Tags: FDA · Pharma bloggers · Rost Watch
Rost Watch, Week 6: PeterNRX jumps to #88 on Healthcare 100
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments
That’s right — in only our sixth week of Rost-watching, Peter’s BrandweekNRX has checked in at #88 on the Healthcare 100, its increasing Technorati rank being the primary factor. We missed our Rost Watch last week, when Peter first cracked the Top 100. When we started the Rost Watch, BrandweekNRX was at #169 in the [...]
Tags: Healthcare blogs · Healthcare100 · Pharma bloggers · Rost Watch
PeterNRX climbs to #114 on Healthcare 100, up from #169
August 27th, 2007 · No Comments
So far, Brandweek’s hiring of Peter Rost looks like a pretty good investment, since he’s now moved BrandweekNRX up 55 places on the Healthcare 100. (Rost’s Question Authority is at #36.)
Tags: Healthcare100 · Pharma bloggers · Rost Watch
Rost Watch, Week 3: BrandweekNRX up again — to #126
August 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments
The Healthcare 100 this week puts BrandweekNRX at #126, up from #130 last week and #169 when Peter took over the blogging duties. Peter’s Question Authority blog is also up.
Tags: Healthcare100 · Pharma bloggers · Rost Watch
Rost vs. the Pharma Blogosphere?
August 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments
It used to be Peter Rost vs. John Mack, but now it seems that Peter’s popularity with some other pharma bloggers may be slipping following the release of his new book, The Killer Drug. Bloggers are protesting Peter’s “shameless self promotion” on his own blog and newly acquired BrandweekNRX. A comment on Peter’s post “Is [...]
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Rost Watch, Week 2: BrandweekNRX soars from #164 to #130 on the Healthcare 100
August 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Only two weeks into our Rost Watch and PeterNRX is already kicking some serious butt. The buzz factor has lifted Peter’s BrandweekNRX to #130 (and his Question Authority blog up another notch to #38.) We’ll have another update next Monday.
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Rost Watch, Week 1: BrandweekNRX jumps from #169 to #164 on the Healthcare 100
August 6th, 2007 · No Comments
That’s right … the buzz factor is already kicking in for PeterNRX. In fact, it’s also lifted the rank of his Question Authority blog from #42 to #39. We’ll have another update next Monday.
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Senior Pfizer employees connected to maraviroc scandal
August 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
According to Peter Rost of BrandweekNRX and “Rost Watch” fame, Pfizer has announced that it will be terminating three execs in the HIV drug sales division. Rost says that two of these individuals have previously been mentioned in e-mails related to allegations about illegal premarketing of the HIV drug maraviroc, which is one of Pfizer’s [...]
Tags: HIV · Maraviroc · Pfizer · Pharma bloggers · Pharmaceutical companies · Prescription drugs · Rost Watch
Can Rost lift BrandweekNRX from the blogosphere’s bowels? Follow the weekly “Rost Watch” at eDrugSearch.com
August 2nd, 2007 · 4 Comments
Pharma bloggers are abuzz with the news that Peter Rost is replacing Jim Edwards as writer for BrandweekNRX. Writes Peter: Clearly some of things I have written in the past on Question Authority are more fitting for Brandweek, and some are less so. It will be interesting to see if the more fitting material drives [...]
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