DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADS: Rx For Better Health Care?
Those ads for prescription drugs on television: they have drug companies kvelling, doctors kvetching and consumer advocates sounding alarm bells. Are patients really better off now that ads for prescription drugs are beamed directly into their homes? In this week's Stryker's Corner, California Healthline's Jeff Stryker looks at the "direct-to-consumer" prescription drug advertising craze, suddenly a billion-dollar-a-year enterprise.
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