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 ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a memo to rein in direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs on television, social media, and other platforms. The memo directs the Food and Drug ...

The Trump administration is cracking down on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration will move to eliminate ...

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 ...

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 ...