All of the September 9 enforcement letters citing DTC promotional content were issued at the center-level by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) or the Center for Biologics Evaluation ...

This post was co-authored with Ms. Lily Johns, research coordinator at the University of Michigan. As discussed in a previous post, direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) is designed to ...

On September 16, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released more than 60 warning letters sent to specific pharmaceutical manufacturers, alleging misbranding of a particular drug ...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration "enforcement in the social media space has historically been somewhat limited, but recent activity suggests that the FDA is taking a closer look at how pharmaceutical ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should ban direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs, Public Citizen said today in a petition filed with the agency. Banning DTC ads would ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking new steps to regulate direct-to-consumer drug advertisements and eliminate misleading advertisements out of concern that patients are not receiving a ...

Direct-to-consumer drug ads have long blurred the line between patient empowerment and corporate persuasion, but the FDA is now moving to rein in misleading tactics on TV and social media. However, ...

Medicine is expensive and only seems to get more so every year. But this doesn’t have to be inevitable. The reason patients pay so much is an insurance industry that no longer functions like insurance ...