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The April 2008 issue of Med Ad News profiled U.S.-based health-care marketing communications agencies. In addition, this issue revealed the winners and finalists for these Manny Award categories:

1. Agency of the Year: Category I
2. Agency of the Year: Category II
3. Agency of the Year: Category III
4. Most Admired Agency
5. Most Creative Agency
6. Most Feared Agency
7. Best Self-Promotion Campaign
8. Best Professional Advertisement
9. Best Disease-Awareness Advertisement
10. Best Pro-Bono Advertisement
11. Best Professional Website
12. Best Patient Website
13. Advertising Persons of the Year (no finalists)

Each nominee was honored and all winners were presented with a Manny Award at an event sponsored by Med Ad News that was held in New York on April 17, 2008.

Listed below are the winners and finalists:

Agency of the Year: Category I

Winner: Cline Davis & Mann LLC
Finalist: Draftcb Healthcare
Finalist: ICC

Agency of the Year: Category II

Winner: Corbett Worldwide Healthcare Communications
Finalist: Dorland Global Corp.
Finalist: Pacific Communications

Agency of the Year: Category III

Winner: Flashpoint Medica LLC
Finalist: Concentric Healthcare LLC
Finalist: Revolution Health LLC

Most Admired Agency

Winner: AbelsonTaylor Inc.
Finalist: Cline Davis & Mann LLC
Finalist: GSW Worldwide

Most Creative Agency

Winner: GSW Worldwide
Finalist: AbelsonTaylor Inc.
Finalist: Cline Davis & Mann LLC

Most Feared Agency

Winner: AbelsonTaylor Inc.
Finalist: Cline Davis & Mann LLC
Finalist: GSW Worldwide

Best Self-Promotion Campaign

Winner: Surge Worldwide Healthcare Communications
Finalist: Sudler & Hennessey
Finalist: Dudnyk

Best Professional Advertisement

Winner: GSW Worldwide for Astellas Pharma's Protopic "Itchcraft" campaign
Finalist: Brand Pharm
Finalist: Corbett Worldwide Healthcare Communications

Best Disease-Awareness Advertisement

Winner: LehmanMillet Inc. for Allergan's "Breast Cancer Awareness" campaign
Finalist: AgencyRx LLC
Finalist: KPR Inc.

Best Pro-Bono Advertisement

Winner: ICC for the Food Allergy Initiative
Finalist: Cline Davis & Mann LLC
Finalist: Medicus NY

Best Professional Website

Winner: GSW Worldwide for MGI Pharma's "Woozyworld" Website
Finalist: The CementWorks LLC
Finalist: Giant Creative Strategy LLC

Best Patient Website

Winner: Blue Diesel LLC for Cephalon's "Share Your Pain" Website
Finalist : Digitas Health
Finalist: Grey Healthcare Group Advertising

Advertising Persons of the Year

Doug Burcin and Donna Murphy, Euro RSCG Life