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Drug ads have been ubiquitous on TV since the late 1990s and have spilled onto the internet and social media.
The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that legally allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
Half of the 10 drugs that the Biden-Kamala Harris administration targeted for drug price negotiation this year are among the drugs with the largest drug ad spend.
The FDA issued requirements that ads give consumers a “non-misleading net impression about the advertised drug”.
Frida Ghitis : FDA has set up a site to teach consumers to better discern whether an ad follows the rules.
She says it's too early to say whether doctors, who dislike such ads too, will use the hotline, and the agency is woefully understaffed to monitor it.
Ghitis asks: Couldn’t someone in politics make these endless drug ads disappear, as has occurred in nearly every other developed country?.
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