December 19, 2023

Alarm over lax oversight of weight loss drug ads that could harm patients

UK organisations responsible for protecting the public from prescription-only drug adverts are putting patients at risk from the harms of weight loss drugs by not enforcing the law, reveals an investigation published by The BMJ today. Legal responsibility for regulating adverts for medicines in the UK rests with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on behalf of health ministers. But […]

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September 23, 2023

Self-regulation of pharma industry marketing is unsustainable and failing patients – new analysis

Healthcare professionals and organisations need to respond more forcefully to unethical marketing from the pharmaceutical industry by holding offending companies to greater account and by supporting stronger regulation, according to the authors of a new British Medical Journal (BMJ) study. Research by Dr Piotr Ozieranski of the University of Bath, and Dr Shai Mulinari of Lund University in Sweden, suggests that much […]

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