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 ...

The templated letter sent across industry reiterates many of the same concerns highlighted in the press release and serves as notice of FDA’s enforcement approach to all drug application holders, ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said President Donald Trump's new executive order requiring pharmaceutical companies to list all the side effects of the drugs they sell could ...

President Trump’s Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the “endless” barrage of pharmaceutical advertisements Americans are hit with on a daily basis, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on ...

Prescription drug commercials are facing renewed scrutiny as the Trump administration and lawmakers from both parties seek ...

We have been complaining about direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising for decades. Far too often, the commercials make it seem as if their products are magical. People are seen ...

Aging means “becoming a target” of the industry, one expert said. After decades of debate, politicians of all stripes are proposing bans. By Paula Span Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 ...

Last fall, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary declared war on drug commercials. He wrote a viewpoint published in JAMA (Sept. 12, 2025) titled, “The FDA’s Overdue Crackdown on Misleading Pharmaceutical ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a scientific approach to evaluating direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising, focusing on how to measure consumer perceptions of the information ...

It’s a familiar experience for many Americans: You’re watching your favorite show and suddenly you’re ambushed by an ad for a drug whose name sounds like a Wi ...