http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/05/warning-this-commercial-may-be-dangerous-to-y Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/05/warning-this-commercial-may-be-dangerous-to-y/comment-page-1#comment-57 Maggie Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:08:01 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/?p=247#comment-57 I loved this article! It's really frightening how common direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising has become. It's one thing for advertising to create demand for regular goods (toys, cars, etc.) an another thing entirely to create artificial demand for prescription medication. Does anyone know if any studies have indicated to what extent such advertising frightens people into believing they have medical conditions warranting the use of advertised medicines? I wonder if it would be possible to calculate the economic burden these excess cases of "disease" place on insurance companies and tax payers? I loved this article! It’s really frightening how common direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising has become. It’s one thing for advertising to create demand for regular goods (toys, cars, etc.) an another thing entirely to create artificial demand for prescription medication. Does anyone know if any studies have indicated to what extent such advertising frightens people into believing they have medical conditions warranting the use of advertised medicines? I wonder if it would be possible to calculate the economic burden these excess cases of “disease” place on insurance companies and tax payers?

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