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How Pharma consultants, suppliers can star on Twitter: Some case studies

For all the talk of Pharma being behind on social media, many of the major drugs companies have a good handle on Twitter. If you follow @boehringer, @sanofi, @AstraZeneca, @pfizer and so on, you will find frequent updates focused on helping patients, written in clear and convivial language, with lots of graphics and videos – …

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Gender Differences in Searching for Health Information on the Internet and the Virtual Patient-Physician Relationship in Germany: Exploratory Results on How Men and Women Differ and Why

Many studies have shown that women use the Internet more often for health-related information searches than men, but we have limited knowledge about the underlying reasons. We also do not know whether and how women and men differ in their current use of the Internet for communicating with their general practitioner (GP) and in their future intention to do so (virtual patient-physician relationship).

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5 ways hospitals can use Instagram successfully.

When you think of industries that are obvious candidates for Instagram, food, fashion and travel make the short list. The delicious. The beautiful. The adventurous. These were the early adopters of the visual storytelling platform that helped build a community of more than 300 million.

Meanwhile, the healthcare industry has been a little slow to innovate around Instagram. The sick. The wounded. The infirmed. It’s not pretty. But what it lacks in beauty, it more than compensates with drama. People love to talk about healthcare. And those people have Instagram accounts.

So how can healthcare marketers capture photos on Instagram to amplify their brand story? Here are five examples:

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