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Drug Ads Mislead Consumers by Exaggerating Benefits, Downplaying Risks

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...

Lawmakers Examine Whether Drug Ads Are Truthful

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....

Study finds drug companies deliberately use misleading marketing messages

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...

Study finds hardly any direct-to-consumer drug ads mention condition risks or alternative treatments

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...

Pharmaceutical television advertising is a grand hoax

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...

Financial ties between FDA, drug companies could get even stronger with new "pay to play" TV advertisement review service

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...

Cancer Drug Ads Put Caveats in Fine Print (press release)

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...

39 Health & Seniors Groups Call on Congress to End to DTC Prescription Drug Ads (press release)

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...

200+ Medical School Professors Call for End to DTC Prescription Drug Ads (press release)

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...

The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs

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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