Prescription drug commercials are facing renewed scrutiny as the Trump administration and lawmakers from both parties seek ...

Although drug ads enjoy First Amendment constitutional protection, I still think they are a bad idea. We shouldn’t be selling medicine like we sell mattresses, writes Dr. Michael Kirsh in a guest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is one of just two countries where drugmakers can advertise directly to patients. BrianAJackson/iStock via Getty ...

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The FDA is seeking (PDF) new powers to hold companies accountable for misleading direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads, adding legislat | The FDA is seeking new powers to hold companies accountable for ...

FIRST ON FOX: Shortly after announcing a strategy to go after deceptive direct-to-consumer advertising by the pharmaceutical industry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human ...

This article first appeared in the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. Pharmaceutical ads in the United States are annoying. Absurd. And almost uniquely American. In fact, only one other high-income ...

The U.S. spends more on prescription drugs per capita than any other wealthy country. Direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs is legal in the U.S. but banned in Europe and Asia. There ...

An effort by President Trump’s administration to curb advertising for pharmaceutical drugs on television is posing a potential marketing hurdle for some of the country’s largest drugmakers while ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anna Chorniy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies ...