Despite debate, drug companies pay celebrities to hype disease awareness. April 1, 2009— -- People love their celebrities and advertisers love their power to sell virtually anything: makeup, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article first appeared in the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. Pharmaceutical ads in the United States are annoying. Absurd. And almost uniquely American. In fact, only one other high-income ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA said it will send letters to pharmaceutical companies asking for the removal of “misleading” drug ads.

As Health and Human Services secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. is a menace to us all and ought to be removed as soon as possible. But he’s right about one matter, and, in a break from his usual practice ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced major reform on Tuesday that requires pharmaceutical companies to include full safety warnings in direct ...

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The Trump administration is planning to ramp up oversight and enforcement of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising, but will stop short of an outright ban. President Trump on Tuesday signed ...

In today’s media landscape, you know what outrages me the most? Seeing those repetitive, dreamlike and misleading prescription drug commercials that seem to eat up more TV air time every year and have ...