What Influences Advocates of Providing "More, Not Less, Truthful...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 14:35

Last week's New England Journal of Medicine included a letter [Troy DE, Gottlieb S.

Pharmaceutical promotion and first amendment rights. N Engl J Med 2008; 359: 536. ] supporting pharmaceutical companies' rights to promote their products for uses not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The letter applauded "the robust, sound constitutional protection the U.S. Supreme Court affords truthful, nonmisleading commercial communication such as that embodied in reprints of scientific articles discussing off-label uses."...

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