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Why Storytelling Matters in Scientific Communications

Scientific communication is getting, more challenging. The data is more complex, and health care professionals (HCPs) have less time to review it. Storytelling is not about...

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Sometimes care starts with simply checking in

Sometimes care really does start with simply checking in—with yourself, and with the people around you.

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FAQ: 9 Ways Storytelling Improves Medical and Scientific Communications

1. How does scientific storytelling make complex data easier to understand? Scientific storytelling forces teams to decide what is most important in...

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What we carry isn't always easy to see

When it comes to mental health, what we carry is not always easy to see. Some days it looks like being quieter than usual, turning inward instead of...

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ISMPP 2026: From Manuscripts to Narrative Ecosystems

At the 2026 ISMPP Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, one theme kept surfacing in conversations across the publications community: storytelling. It has...

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We all carry it: Rethinking how we see mental health

Mental health doesn’t always look the way people expect it to. Sometimes it’s obvious. More often, it isn’t. It can show up quietly in the middle of...

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The rise of the AI-empowered patient: How direct-to-patient models will rewrite pharma commercialization

AI tools, at-home diagnostics, and new DTP platforms—from LillyDirect and PfizerForAll, to TrumpRx and Cost Plus Drugs—are turning patients into...

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Why your brand plan can't see what's killing it

Most pharma launches fail for strategic reasons, not scientific ones. Here's the planning shift that changes the outcome. The data should make every...

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The stakes have never been higher. Is your brand plan built to win?

The numbers don't lie—and right now, they're telling an uncomfortable story. Roughly two-thirds of new drug launches miss their first-year sales...

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The Woven team participated in a panel at the 2026 MM+M Transform conference.

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What We Heard at MM+M Transform 2026

From AI to unifying the HCP & DTC playbooks — innovation is driving change in the pharma marketing landscape On March 31, the pharma marketing world...

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