Prescription drug ads come under criticism
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When Emily Martin was hospitalized for emergency gallbladder surgery last summer, her doctors found that she also had acid reflux, causing erosion of her esophagus.
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The maker of the first medication approved for use in a specific racial group is preparing to roll out its first advertisements in a narrowly targeted campaign that stresses quality-of-life issues for black heart-failure patients rather than dwelling on race.
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Questions about billing, coverage and prices of drugs covered under the new prescription benefit were routinely wrong, the government finds.
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The Food and Drug Administration has warned Pfizer Inc. that advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra misled consumers.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc fired another salvo in defense of diabetes treatment Avandia on Tuesday by taking out full-page advertisements in at least a dozen major U.S. newspapers in an attempt to reassure patients of the safety of the widely used medicine.
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WASHINGTON &#151; Safety concerns about a GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug prompted some Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to rebuke the Food and Drug Administration and call for increased regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Drug companies are bombarding GPs with promotional materials and inducements, campaigners say.
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Consumer advocates backed by some  prominent doctors and researchers on Thursday questioned a new  U.S. policy recommending wider use of statin drugs to lower  cholesterol.
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Pushing more of the cost of prescription drugs onto consumers causes patients to cut back, sometimes with adverse health consequences, according to a review of two decades worth of studies published on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - The US pharmaceutical industry that exports billions of dollars worth of medicine around the world faced new scrutiny Friday after a survey revealed nearly one-fifth of its government overseers had experienced pressure to approve drugs they
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Consumer Reports' effort to rate drugs offers a lesson to pharmaceutical companies.
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Just weeks after Merck &amp; Co. pulled its anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx from the market, rival Celebrex, marketed by Pfizer Inc. , is mounting a wide-scale, consumer-oriented ad campaign to get people to ask their doctors about the drug.
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The pharmaceutical industry and Madison Avenue are increasingly concerned about their ability to continue to pitch prescription drugs at patients and doctors.
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Every day, millions of people are bombarded with health information through direct-to-consumer drug ads on TV. Millions more go online to research a new diagnosis
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Critics charge conflict of interest in a system where pharmaceutical giants fund the regulatory process.
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One of the nation&#39;s leading cardiovascular medical researchers has issued a call for less aggressive direct-to-consumer advertising and better safety assurances of medications in a special article posted online today by JAMA because of its relevance to
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With Merck&#39;s recent withdrawal of arthritis medication Vioxx from the market, &quot;prescription drug promotions of all kinds -- the celebrity pitches, the glossy television and magazine ads, the freebies to doctors -- are likely to come under new scrutiny as