It’s not every day that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Independent Senators Bernie Sanders and Angus King would agree on, well, anything. But when it comes to the ...

May 15 -- Over the past five years, the government has spent $929 million in taxpayer money on advertising that was aimed at discouraging kids from using drugs. But the man in charge of the war on ...

Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on drug companies to be more transparent about the risks associated with their prescription products. In a memorandum signed on Tuesday, the President ordered ...

The U.S. spends more on prescription drugs per capita than any other wealthy country. Direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs is legal in the U.S. but banned in Europe and Asia. There ...

Though spending on pharmaceutical TV ads picked up last month following a summer slump, the third quarter’s overall total still paled in comparison to the preceding periods this year. In Q3, the top ...

At a rate of about 80 ads per hour, TV prescription drug ads are nearly unavoidable. This trend in direct-to-consumer advertising has many in the healthcare industry, including the American Medical ...

As frustration grows with rising healthcare costs and high drug prices, some policymakers have latched onto a familiar scapegoat: direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising. A growing ...

Consumers are now almost as likely to say they learn about new medications from advertisements on linear or connected TV as from their doctor, according to a new report. Predictive advertising company ...

For decades, pharmaceutical companies have shelled out big bucks to broadcasters to place ads between TV segments. But a pair of policies being considered by US Health and Human Services Secretary ...

Critics have railed against direct-to-consumer ads for prescription drugs since the 1990s. Opponents of the ads, many of whom are medical providers, say they contribute to unnecessary anxiety and self ...

This article first appeared in the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. Pharmaceutical ads in the United States are annoying. Absurd. And almost uniquely American. In fact, only one other high-income ...