Researchers critical of TV drug ads.

摘要

ADVERTISEMENTS OF PRESCRIP-tion drugs on television offer limited educational value and may oversell the products in ways that could conflict with promoting population health, said researchers in a research report released on January 29. The study's authors, led by Domi-nick L. Frosch, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, concluded that drug ads on television offer limited information about disease causes and about who is at risk; show actors losing control over their social, emotional, or physical lives without medication; and minimize health benefits of lifestyle modification