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James Thompson, MD

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One Doc's Opinion: Regarding Direct to Consumer Drug Marketing

One Doctor's Opinion: Regarding a survey conducted by USA Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health about how drug ads influence doctors in prescribing medications and the impact on cost. Marketing prescription drugs to the public was popularized over a decade ago, by the makers of Claritin, a non-drowsy... Read more Chevron

posted 03/05/2008, comments (6)|

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Prescription Drug Ads: Do They Do More Harm Than Good?

Read our experts' analysis in a special Issue Section "Prescription-drug ads prompt nearly one-third of Americans to ask their doctors about an advertised medicine, and 82% of those who ask say their physicians recommended a prescription." This comes from Julie Appleby, a reporter with USA TODAY in a news article about... Read more Chevron

posted 03/04/2008, comments (0)|