Ensuring that consumers receive appropriate information from drug ads: What is the FDA's role?

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Waxman, Henry A ^a  

^a House Committee on Government Reform

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CONSUMER; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SAFETY; EDUCATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 4644267927     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.W4.256     Document Type: Short Survey

References (6)

1. J.S. Weissman et al., "Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct-to-Consumer Advertising," Health Affairs, 28 April 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.219 (28 April 2004); and S. Woloshin et al., "The Value of Benefit Data in Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads," Health Affairs, 28 April 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.234 (28 April 2004).
2. J.S. Weissman et al., "Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct-to-Consumer Advertising," Health Affairs, 28 April 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.219 (28 April 2004); and S. Woloshin et al., "The Value of Benefit Data in Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads," Health Affairs, 28 April 2004, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/abstract/hlthaff.w4.234 (28 April 2004).
3. Letter from Rep. Henry A. Waxman to the Honorable Tommy G. Thompson, 1 October 2002, www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_prescrip/prescrip_drug_ads.htm (6 April 2004).
4. U.S. General Accounting Office, Prescription Drugs: FDA Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Has Limitations, Pub. no GAO-03-177 (Washington: GAO, 2002).
5. Letter from FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan to Rep. Henry A. Waxman, 31 March 2003.
6. Committee on Government Reform, Minority Staff, "FDA Enforcement Actions against False and Misleading Drug Advertisements Declined in 2003," January 2004, www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_prescrip/index_drug_ads_2003.htm (6 April 2004).