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Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6743

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Publication type: Journal Article

Servier resists but MaLAM persists!
MaLAM Australian News 1997 May-Jun; 5:(5-6):2


Abstract:

Servier is not a member of the Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and refused to let MaLAM’s complaint be heard by the APMA. MaLAM then sent a complaint to the Therapeutic Goods Administration but has not heard back for almost a year. Although Servier’s ads were found to be in violation of the United Kingdom Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority similar ads are still running in British journals 6 months later. Servier’s continuing misleading promotion illustrates the multiple failures involved in the regulation of promotion.

Keywords:
*analysis/Australia/United Kingdom/developed countries/Servier/ Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association/ Code of Conduct (Aus)/ Code of Practice (UK)/ regulation of promotion/ company responses/MaLAM/Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing/Coversyl/perindopril/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: INDUSTRY/PROMOTION AND HEALTH NEEDS: PROMOTION IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: DIRECT GOVERNMENT REGULATION/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION

 

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As an advertising man, I can assure you that advertising which does not work does not continue to run. If experience did not show beyond doubt that the great majority of doctors are splendidly responsive to current [prescription drug] advertising, new techniques would be devised in short order. And if, indeed, candor, accuracy, scientific completeness, and a permanent ban on cartoons came to be essential for the successful promotion of [prescription] drugs, advertising would have no choice but to comply.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963