Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3230
Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.
 
Publication type: news
Manners S.
All the news that’s fit to print: dealing with what your patients read
Canadian Doctor 1984 Feb36-39
Abstract:
(Limited to parts of article dealing with promotion.) In the past few years pharmaceutical companies have started to release information on new drugs by holding a press conference, instead of explaining the product to doctors beforehand. In the future, industry will try and correct this situation.
Keywords:
*news story/Canada/journalists/press conferences and releases/general public and consumers/PROMOTION DISGUISED: PRESS CONFERENCES AND PRESS COVERAGE