
When it comes to improving its image, the best that the pharmaceutical industry can do is go sideways.
Just 41% of patient groups thought the pharmaceutical industry had an “excellent” or “good” reputation last year, which is within striking distance of the 43% notched in 2017 and 38% in 2016, according to a survey by PatientView, a research firm that canvassed more than 1,500 patient groups from 78 countries between last November and this past February.