[PDF][PDF] Should Canada allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs?: No

B Mintzes - Canadian Family Physician, 2009 - cfp.ca
Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs has increased enormously over
the past decade in the United States and New Zealand, the 2 countries where it is legal. In …

[HTML][HTML] Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in Canada: Permission by default?

DM Gardner, B Mintzes, A Ostry - CMAJ, 2003 - Can Med Assoc
David M. Gardner, Barbara Mintzes, Aleck Ostry ß See related articles pages 405 and 421
the law. 7 An added concern arises when Health Canada decisions on specific advertising …

[PDF][PDF] Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising: is there evidence of health benefits

B Mintzes - Essential Drugs Monitor, 2002 - healthyskepticism.org
RESSURE from the pharmaceutical industry and related lobby groups to allow prescription
drug advertising to consumers is growing in Australia, Canada and the European Union …

[HTML][HTML] Direct-to-consumer advertising and expenditures on prescription drugs: a comparison of experiences in the United States and Canada

SG Morgan - Open Medicine, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
OVER THE PAST QUARTER-CENTURY, PRESCRIPTION drug manufacturers in the United
States have increasingly invested in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) designed to …

[HTML][HTML] Direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads getting bolder

A Silversides - 2001 - Can Med Assoc
Officially, Canada's Food and Drug Act prohibits this direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA).
Although a 1996 Health Canada policy paper defines DTCA as an activity “with the primary …

[HTML][HTML] A decade of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs

JM Donohue, M Cevasco… - New England Journal of …, 2007 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Evidence suggests that direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs
increases pharmaceutical sales and both helps to avert underuse of medicines and leads to …

[BOOK][B] Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs in Canada

B Mintzes - 2006 - Citeseer
Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs (DTCA) is prohibited in Canada, as in
most industrialized countries. Only two countries allow such advertising, New Zealand and …

[HTML][HTML] What are the public health effects of direct-to-consumer drug advertising?

EA Almasi, RS Stafford, RL Kravitz, PR Mansfield - PLos medicine, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Background to the Debate Only two industrialized countries, the United States and New
Zealand, allow direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines, although …

Challenges in regulating direct-to-consumer advertising

JE Henney - JAMA, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER (DTC) ADVERTISING OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS has
rapidly become one of the most contentious issues facing the medical profession in the …

Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising: Trends, Impact, And Implications: Aiming drug ads at consumers means big business for drug companies, but its …

MS Wilkes, RA Bell, RL Kravitz - Health affairs, 2000 - healthaffairs.org
PROLOGUE: Anyone who watches television or reads newspapers or magazines in modern-
day America cannot help but notice the dramatic upsurge in the number of prescription drug …