The John Green Effect: Will Industry Be Influenced Again?

The Fault In Our Global Access To Medicines Practices

Drug and device makers regularly use media to sway consumers. But some advocacy groups recently turned the tables by using social media to sway industry. 

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Advocacy groups recently used social media to sway the biopharma industry. And not only did the effort – which involved a high-profile influencer – alter a decade-long battle over access to tuberculosis products, but it may embolden other advocates to use social media to best companies at their own game.

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