In recent months ominous ads about prescription drugs have flooded the TV airwaves. Perhaps by design, it’s not always clear who’s sponsoring the ads or why. Or, for that matter, why now? The short ...
It’s not every day that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Independent Senators Bernie Sanders and Angus King would agree on, well, anything. But when it comes to the ...
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Drug Ads Misinform Patients and Raise Health Care Costs
Direct-to-consumer drug ads are prohibited in almost all countries besides the US. By leading doctors to prescribe unnecessary and more expensive treatments at the request of their patients, they also ...
WASHINGTON (WAND) — U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Tuesday on the Senate floor to request unanimous consent to pass their bipartisan Drug-price ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated desire to ban drug commercials from TV seems unlikely to become reality, according to advertising experts, but even pressure from Washington that falls short of an ...
The FDA finalized a rule that will require a drug’s side effects to be "presented in a clear, conspicuous, and neutral manner.” Reading time 2 minutes Drug commercials in the U.S. are set to become ...
We have been complaining about direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising for decades. Far too often, the commercials make it seem as if their products are magical. People are seen ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In today’s media landscape, you know what outrages me the most? Seeing those repetitive, dreamlike and misleading prescription drug commercials that seem to ...
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