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 ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said President Donald Trump's new executive order requiring pharmaceutical companies to list all the side effects of the drugs they sell could ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump’s Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the “endless” barrage of pharmaceutical advertisements Americans are hit with on a daily basis, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on ...