Goodbye, Pharmalot

The popular blog covering pharmaceutical and biotech industry news has been shuttered.

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WIKIMEDIA, KEN HAWKINSEach day, Ed Silverman, a long-time blogger and reporter, would start his morning post on Pharmalot with the chipper greeting, “Pharmalot, Pharmalittle,” plus a few words on the weather and whatever else was on his mind. For years, Silverman covered the ins and outs of the biotech and pharmaceutical industries on his popular blog. But as of December 31, Pharmalot’s parent company, UBM Canon, shut down production of Med Ad News, eKnowledgeBase, R&D Directions, and PharmaLive.com—which hosted Silverman’s blog.

“Everyone in the Pharma Blogosphere was surprised and saddened by this announcement,” wrote PharmaGuy at Pharma Marketing Blog. Silverman “will especially be missed as his voice and stories added insight to the complex and changing world of healthcare marketing,” wrote Richard Meyer at WorldofDTCMarketing.com. “We need people like Ed, John Mack and others to be the conscious [sic] of our industry and remind everyone that developing good products is good medicine which in turn means good business.”

The blog's archives are now inaccessible. In place of posts, Pharmalive.com/Pharmalot today donned a statement from UMB Canon: “Thank you for your loyalty and support that has played such an important part over the last thirty years.”

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    Kerry Grens

    Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

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