Drugmakers Called To Hill For Hearing On Ads

  • May 6, 2008
U.S. lawmakers will examine advertising campaigns for the cholesterol drugs Lipitor and Vytorin plus anemia drug Procrit at a hearing on Thursday, a U.S. House of Representatives committee said.

Officials from the drugmakers will testify at the hearing, according to a notice sent on Monday from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Pfizer makes Lipitor, and Johnson & Johnson sells Procrit. Vytorin is sold through a joint venture of Merck & Co Inc. and Schering-Plough Corp.

--Nina M. Lentini

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