I think Mike Tyson said it best when he stated, “Everyone has a strategy… until they get hit.” The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure definitely got “hit” in the days following the announcement of their break-up with Planned Parenthood, but in retrospect, one has to wonder if they really had a strategy.

In every pharmaceutical television commercial there's the bit at the end while a voiceover intones a litany of potential side effects and drug warnings likely to startle anyone thinking of taking it. Of course, that's when the video usually takes in an intimate hug on a
sailboat or a walk in the woods with a golden lab. And millions of people in the audience apparently are more tuned in to the pictures
than the cautionary message inserted into the promo.

The FDA has released a long-awaited draft of guidelines for how pharma and medical device companies can properly use "emerging electronic media" (social media marketing and communications) when discussing off-label uses of drugs and devices. And while this is not a comprehensive set of social media guidelines, it's a great start and according to the FDA, the "first of many planned guidance initiatives."

A class-action lawsuit has been filed in Australia against drug maker Merck by a young woman who suffered autoimmune and neurological health problems following injections with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.

Teen birth rates in the U.S. have been generally declining since 1991, but are still higher than in other developed countries.

Now, new stats from the CDC show that about half of teen moms who got pregnant unintentionally weren’t using any form of birth control at the time of conception. The survey also asked the next question that might spring to mind: For the love of Mike, why not