Vanda’s Hetlioz Marketing: Disease Awareness DTC, Reps For Specialty Docs
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Firm hopes strategy will educate patients about largely unknown condition, non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder, while using small sales force to target sleep experts.
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