The membership of the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame has elected its 2017 inductees: Ryan Abbate, innovator and founder of Pacific Communications, and Mike Lazur, award-winner creative director of Torre Lazur.

Third Rock Ventures LLC announced the closing of Third Rock Ventures IV LP (“Fund IV”), raising $616 million in an oversubscribed fund. With Fund IV, the firm will continue to execute on its strategy of creating innovative healthcare companies to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and their families.

More time is now spent on the Internet through smartphones than on PCs; that includes both work and leisure time. But it’s not necessarily easier to connect with your customers.

Before there are new therapies to set a firm apart, there is a far more fundamental need that competitiveness will ultimately hinge on: high-quality, diversified, annotated human biospecimens.

In January 2013, after a long struggle with severe depression, my boyfriend took his own life. When someone you love commits suicide, there’s no handbook, no rules, no guidance for how to handle it.

For this annual special report, which is in its 30th year of publication, Med Ad News editors rank and profile the world’s top 50 companies that generate revenue from healthcare products.

The amount of new drug approvals in 2015 was the FDA’s highest total since 1950 due in part to revamped pipelines, but a tough future looms as the grumblings over pricing have risen to a roar.

Humira

Just a few years after its spin-off from Abbott, Med Ad News Company of the Year AbbVie is very much back in the big pharma conversation.

Amgen has focused the company’s business and operating model through significant transformation and process improvement efforts to produce innovative medicines while generating satisfactory investor returns.

AstraZeneca continues to rely on its growth platforms to bring the company back on track, weathering patent expirations as it cultivates the pipeline with many promising products.