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Pharmaceutical companies could be prohibited from advertising new drugs directly to consumers for the first two years they are on the market under a bill moving through Congress this week.

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STONERS
April 17, 2007, 2:39 p.m.
The goal, supporters say, is to ensure medicines are safe before allowing industry to promote them to consumers in the hopes they will request prescriptions from doctors.
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JohnChasWebb
April 18, 2007, 12:48 a.m.
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Advertising prescription drugs on TV has produced a virtual assault on TV viewers. Additionally, I should think that Big Pharm, in trying to do an end-run around physicians, are violating public policy.
It is the physician who is responsible for prescribing medication and not drug companies. The TV ads describe all of the symptoms that you can repeat to your doctor in order to get a script for the advertised product.
Translated: "Here are the symptoms to tell your physician to be able to get this stuff".
Then Senator Edwards when running as a Vice Presidential candidate mentioned this problem a few times.
It seems that having a DVR is essential to keeping one's sanity (skip over commercials) and to protect oneself from the onslaught of Big Pharm.
Doubtlessly the physicians like this advertising because there is always the direction "discu$$ thi$ with your doctor". They are trashing TV.
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Hobe
April 18, 2007, 10:35 a.m.
John, *** Excellent Post ***
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texangelwings
April 18, 2007, 12:18 p.m.

The one thing that is good about the TV ads on meds, is the lists of possible side affects.
(Some of the possible side affects are enough to scare a person. Personally, I do not want 10 more new problems, just to fix one problem, if I can live with the one problem.)