Feature articles on drug ads: | 10/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) Direct-to-consumer drug ads tend to emphasize the benefits of drugs and downplay the risks, health experts warn.
"There's currently, and has been for a long time, an unfair balance between the presentation of the risks and the benefits...
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 | 7/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) Merck/Schering-Plough has been forced to pull several ads for Vytorin recently due to concerns that the prescription drug ads may be misleading or not truthful with consumers. Vytorin is a prescription drug prescribed to treat high cholesterol....
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 | 2/13/2007 - (NaturalNews) The amount of television advertising money that pharmaceutical companies spend has doubled in recent years. Studies show that viewers often see a medicinal product and bring up what they saw to their doctors. However, the tone of the advertisements...
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| 2/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) Researchers from two branches of the University of California as well as a former FDA commissioner assert that direct-to-consumer television ads for prescription drugs often fail to identify risk factors or alternative, drug-free treatments...
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 | 1/30/2007 - Television drug ads engage in such blatant deceptions and exaggerations that even the medical journals are starting to condemn the practice. This week, the Annals of Family Medicine published an analysis of popular drug advertisements that concluded...
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| 11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) Under a new deal, pharmaceutical companies will now begin paying fees to the FDA when it reviews television drug ads in return for the agency expediting the reviews, but a natural health author says the arrangement will only strengthen FDA/Big...
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| 7/28/2006 - If you're reading a magazine ad promoting an anti-cancer drug, be sure to read the fine print, a new U.S. study says.
Drugs to fight cancer that were advertised in consumer-based magazines seemed to promote all of the benefits of the drugs in large...
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| 7/24/2006 - Thirty-nine medical, health and seniors’ organizations are urging Congress to stop the advertising of prescription drugs to consumers, Commercial Alert and the National Women’s Health Network announced today.
“Prescription drug ads are dishonest...
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| 7/21/2006 - In a strong show of opposition to advertising for prescription drugs, 211 professors from U.S. medical schools endorsed a statement that “direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs should be prohibited.”
The statements endorsers include prominent...
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 | 7/31/2005 - A cute, animated ball bounces around very sadly until he takes a magic potion; suddenly, it becomes happier than ever. No, that isn't the plot of a new children's movie. On the contrary, it's the storyline of a Zoloft commercial – yes, Zoloft, a powerful...
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