Howard Reid, VP of marketing for pulmonary hypertension at Janssen

J&J new so­cial me­dia se­ries sup­ports and cel­e­brates ‘war­rior’ nurs­es in pul­monary hy­per­ten­sion

Dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, con­ver­sa­tions of­ten fo­cused on sup­port­ing health­care work­ers on the front­line. Now John­son & John­son’s Janssen is of­fer­ing sup­port to a dif­fer­ent kind of “PHront­line” work­er — nurs­es who care for pul­monary hy­per­ten­sion, or PH, pa­tients.

Janssen’s “PHront­line Con­ver­sa­tions” de­buted last week on Face­book Live with the first episode, in a planned se­ries, on man­ag­ing care and up-to-date ed­u­ca­tion on the rare high blood pres­sure con­di­tion. While typ­i­cal hy­per­ten­sion is high blood pres­sure in the ar­ter­ies through­out the body, PH is spe­cif­ic to the lungs.

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