Drug ads deliver a few side effects

Drug ads deliver a few side effects Drug companies tripled their advertising budgets in recent years to acquaint American consumers with things like acid reflux disease, depression, erectile dysfunction, and even toenail fungus, a marketing blitz that accounted for roughly 12 percent of the growth in national prescription drug spending in 2000, according to a Harvard University-MIT study released yesterday.


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