Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3667

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Publication type: Journal Article

Bell KD.
Regulating drug advertisements
Lancet 1989; 2:678

Abstract:

Mansfield fails to recognize the important role that industry self-regulation makes in controlling promotion. He also does not appreciate that changes to prescribing information lag behind scientific evidence because of regulatory delays not because of a reluctance of manufacturers to provide the latest information to prescribers.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/Australia/regulation of promotion/ Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association/industry perspective/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: INDUSTRY/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION