Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2752
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Publication type: Journal Article
The peculiar success of Chloromycetin
Consumer Reports 1970 Oct; 35:(10):616-619
Abstract:
The article describes how Parke Davis was able to keep up sales of its potentially fatal antibiotic, Chloromycetin (chloramphenicol) by lying to its sales representatives about Food and Drug Administration evaluations of the product, by deleting safety information from the Physicians’ Desk Reference and by running “reminder†advertisements in medical journals which were not required to include safety information.
Keywords:
*analysis/United States/chloramphenicol/Chloromycetin/Parke Davis/Physicians’ Desk Reference/PDR/FDA/Food and Drug Administration/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: INDUSTRY/EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: GENERAL QUALITY OF INFORMATION/EVALUATION OF PROMOTION: JOURNAL ADVERTISEMENTS/PROMOTION DISGUISED: DISINFORMATION AND HARASSMENT