FDA seeks more power over drug ads, advisory panels

The Trump administration dropped its fiscal 2027 budget request Friday, and the massive document release includes some ...
Fierce Pharma

FDA seeks legislative teeth to bite back against misleading DTC drug ads

The FDA is seeking (PDF) new powers to hold companies accountable for misleading direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads, adding legislat | The FDA is seeking new powers to hold companies accountable for ...
Yahoo

Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is one of just two countries where drugmakers can advertise directly to patients. BrianAJackson/iStock via Getty ...

People’s Pharmacy | Will the FDA take action on prescription drug ads?

Last fall, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary declared war on drug commercials. He wrote a viewpoint published in JAMA (Sept.
Marketplace

Drug advertising could change under Trump, RFK

For the past 30 years, turn on the television and, at some point, you’ve likely encountered an “ask your doctor” ad. They’re the ones that look to sell you medications and often depict very ...
The Daily Signal

Adding More Regulations to Drug Advertising is Unnecessary. Here’s Why.

Daniel Troy is a former chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration and a former general counsel of GlaxoSmithKline. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to rewrite ...
Fox News

WATCH: Parody drug ad spotlights RFK’s crackdown on misleading pharmaceutical marketing

FIRST ON FOX: Shortly after announcing a strategy to go after deceptive direct-to-consumer advertising by the pharmaceutical industry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Should drug companies be advertising to consumers?

Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 and '23. Both her parents died; a relationship ended; she retired from communications consulting. She moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Warren, Rhode ...
FiercePharma

2026 forecast: Pharma ad dollars will continue shifting away from traditional TV

Amid rapidly evolving media consumption habits and a federal push to limit direct-to-consumer drug advertising, pharma companies in 2026 and beyond are on track to continue their migration away from ...
The Telegraph

Drug company ads are easy to blame for misleading patients and raising costs, but research shows they do help patients get needed treatment

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anna Chorniy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies ...
Press-Telegram

Senior living: Should drug companies be advertising to consumers?

Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 and ’23. Both her parents died, a relationship ended and she retired from communications consulting. She moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Warren, ...