High Cost of Medicine - Marketing Disease/Pushing Drugs

I’ve been queasy at best and outraged at worst at the whole idea of advertising drugs on television - and I spent years in the advertising business. It’s completely and totally wrong and should be stopped - or at the very least strictly regulated

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Making the label promises meet the reality

Here’s a good example of how good government can work in our favor:

THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to make it easier—for consumers as well as smaller food packagers—to understand label claims for antioxidant and high-potency products. The agency recently published guidelines to help smaller firms comply with these labeling rules, following up on regulations issued in September 2007.

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