Prescription drug ads simply not necessary
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A major component in the skyrocketing cost of health care in America is prescription drug costs. Whatever final solution the country comes to about how to handle health care, one thing is clear, pharmaceutical
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Pfizer does not plan to recall Celebrex, but the company would immediately halt advertising this popular arthritis drug to consumers after a study showed that high doses were
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Drug company Pfizer has pulled its advertising of arthritis drug Celebrex following a study suggesting it could cause heart attacks and strokes.
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Television advertisements promoting Pfizer Inc.&#39;s impotence drug Viagra omit key information and should be withdrawn, the US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) said in a letter to the company released on Monday.
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Pfizer Inc. said it would immediately stop advertising arthritis drug Celebrex to consumers after a study showed that high doses were associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, according to a published report.
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Drug giant Pfizer is to stop advertising its best-selling arthritis pain reliever Celebrex after a study showed high doses of it were associated with an increased heart attack risk.
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NEW YORK -- Drug maker Pfizer said yesterday it would immediately stop advertising its best-selling arthritis pain reliever Celebrex to consumers after a study showed high doses of it were associated with an increased heart attack risk.
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A free Viagra prescription or a  no-cost trial of sleeping pills are examples of growing offers  to U.S. consumers, but regulators and critics worry about the  side effects of pitching medicines like selling soap.
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The latest &quot;magic pill&quot; may help some people with occasional irregular heartbeats treat themselves, avoiding a trip to the emergency room.
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Life & style: Many pamphlets for patients at GP surgeries have no NHS authorisation. Rather, they are put out by companies promoting products
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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
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Dr. Robert Jarvikâs appearance in television ads for Lipitor has helped rekindle a smoldering debate over aiming ads for prescription drugs directly at consumers.
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The Orioles make it clear they don't want to talk about a report linking OF Jay Gibbons to a Florida pharmacy that distributed prescription performance-enhancing drugs.
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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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NEW YORK -- Only 4 percent of Americans have ever used the Internet to buy prescription drugs -- and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies -- despite websites maintained by a handful of states to help citizens import medicines more cheaply from Canada, a new study finds.
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Television commercials will sell soup and cars, not Vietnam War records or health care plans. Parks and sports arena that were the sites of campaign rallies will again be places of play.
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Pfizer said it would stop airing the TV commercials after US regulators found the impotence-treatment ads overstate the effectiveness and omit the risks of the pills.