Guest Top Ten List

Ed Silverman runs the Pharmalot blog, which tracks the pharmaceutical industry and its issues. An editor at The Pink Sheet, the industry bible, he previously worked for The Star-Ledger of New Jersey and New York Newsday, among other publications.

Top 10 Blogs To Make Sense Of The Pharmaceutical Industry

Bnet Pharma Analysis

Journalist Jim Edwards uses a jaundiced eye to look behind the headlines at the goings-on at the big drugmakers.

Drug and Device Law

This blog and FDA Law Blog are written by attorneys who represent pharma. D&D offers insights into product-liability litigation and the other analyzes FDA regs.

DrugChannels

Consultant Adam Fein explains the inside-baseball world of prescription drug distribution, pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies.

Eye on FDA

Run by a public relations professional, the blog does a smart job of following policy and communications issues, which are always hot.

Health Care Renewal

Run by academics, the blog regularly tracks ethical issues that have recently plagued the pharmaceutical industry.

In the Pipeline

Derek Lowe, a veteran big pharma scientist, offers a discerning eye on research issues, mixing corporate and laboratory perspectives.

Patent Baristas

This spot goes to Patent Baristas and 2 others: Patent Docs and IPWatchdog. It's hard to pick one over the other, these blogs all thoroughly explain the most important patent issues facing drugmakers.

PharmaGossip

Saucy and provocative, Jack Friday – a nom de pharma – offers amusing and insightful tidbits on pharma’s corporate behavior

The Carlat Psychiatry Blog

Psychiatrist Dan Carlat likes to pull back the curtain on the controversial topic of continuing medical education and industry funding.

The In Vivo Blog

Quirky, but insightful, the blog peels back the onion on the deals that drugmakers are increasingly pursuing to fill their pipelines. [Full disclosure: I work for the company that owns this blog and sometimes contribute].