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Direct-to-consumer advertising misleads patients, upsets doctors

Jun 19, 2008 02:32 AM
by Haley Westbrook
Direct-to-consumer advertising misleads patients, upsets doctors

 You can't flip through a magazine or change the channel these days without noticing the dozens of advertisements highlighting the newest prescription drug for depression or a blockbuster pill that treats both good and bad cholesterol.

This form of advertising, used widely by both big-name and small pharmaceutical companies, is called direct-to-consumer advertising, or DTCA, and it's ruffling some feathers among doctors.


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