04 Dec 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
NEW YORK: Pfizer and the South African Ministry of Health have formed a partnership to provide free of charge the anti-fungal medication Diflucan to HIV/AIDS patients in that country.
27 Nov 2000
| by PHIL RABIN
WASHINGTON: One of the largest RFPs to be issued in recent times, the dollars 250 million National Institutes of Health PR contract, was nearly thrown into disarray last week when a number of electronic submissions went missing.
27 Nov 2000
| by MATTHEW ARNOLD
NEW YORK: Porter Novelli has overhauled its senior management, naming David Copithorne as its new US president to oversee the firm's US operations, and appointing a senior management team composed of 33 partners.
20 Nov 2000
WASHINGTON: Ogilvy PR and the Academy for Educational Development are the big winners of the first round of bidding for task orders offered by the Health Care Financing Administration, which administers federal health insurance programs. A dollars 5.4 million contract from HCFA will involve the agency...
20 Nov 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
WASHINGTON: Opponents have launched a legal and PR counteroffensive against the ergonomics regulation mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last week.
20 Nov 2000
What stamps out cigarette butts with big, webbed feet and quacks 'y'all'? An East Texas spokesduck, that's what.
The Duck is the animated anti-Joe-Camel brainchild of about 100 kids who got together to help Tuerff-Davis EnviroMedia spend dollars 4 million in Texas tobacco settlement money.
Tony...
13 Nov 2000
| by STEVE LILIENTHAL
Client: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Ga.)
06 Nov 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
BRADENTON, FL: Ketchum was the PR agency at the center of a top-secret project for Tropicana that culminated last week with the launch of the claim on the product s packaging stating orange juice is good for cardiovascular health.
06 Nov 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
NEW YORK: Edelman Worldwide hired Mark Chataway as European chair of its heathcare practice.
23 Oct 2000
A man claims he gave Queen Elizabeth II a bouquet containing a marijuana plant during a recent royal visit to Manchester, England.