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220 E. 42nd Street, 9th Floor New York, N.Y. 10017-5806 Phone: 212/210-0100 Editor’s Note: As PR increasingly becomes meshed with advertising and marketing, PR practitioners are getting a first-hand view of how these other disciplines… Continued

Despite the benefits of being able to bring the office home, some aspects of the corporate environment simply can’t be shared by a homebound telecom-muter. So what does this mean for in-house PR or communications… Continued

CIGARSir International, a division of The Critical Solutions Group Companies, surely wanted to make friends – not enemies – when it announced March 12 that it planned to donate to cancer research organizations 3 cents… Continued

Newsweek’s Pearson to Go to Time Next Month Diana Pearson, communications director at Newsweek, will leave her post April 8 to become public affairs director at Time. Time’s call to hire Pearson – who said… Continued

Two Atlanta-based PR houses accustomed to generating publicity for others – and not themselves – will face a new kind of media spotlight beginning today. This time, Manning, Selvage & Lee (MS&L) and Jackson Spalding… Continued

When account executives at Schwartz Communications were handed the announcement of the FDA’s approval of the ForeRunner AED, a medical device by Heartstream, Inc., their first thoughts were to create a VNR. Seattle-based Heartstream is… Continued

March 23-26: 1997 Annual Conference Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing. San Francisco; 312/704-9700. June 11-13: The Ninth National Conference of Physician Referral and Health Information Services. Physician Referral & Health Information Update. Atlanta; 404/377-6131.… Continued

The use of healthcare Video News Releases (VNR) is alive and well, but practitioners should avoid excessive product plugs and give broadcast journalists stories that will improve the lives of viewers. More and more editors… Continued

Alternative Medicines Gaining Popularity Marketers may want to look at holistic marketing, considering that one in 3 Americans now turns to alternative healers, say pollsters. A recent Gallup survey has reported that visits to holistic… Continued

Quebec Embarks on Major Ad Blitz Promoting Health Reform The Quebec government is spending $1.9 million on a two-month advertising campaign to promote its reform of the province’s healthcare system – including the closing of… Continued