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A.M.A. to Study Effect of Marketing Drugs to Consumers

Add another voice to the list of groups questioning how drugs are pitched to consumers. The American Medical Association, the nation's largest organization of physicians, agreed yesterday to study whether consumer drug advertising leads to unnecessary prescriptions, potentially harming patients and driving up health costs.

Read the whole story at The New York Times, June 22, 2005 »

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