{"id":198500,"date":"2007-11-02T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/02\/edwards-proposed-2-year-ban-on-direct-to-consumer-drug-ads\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T02:25:00","slug":"edwards-proposed-2-year-ban-on-direct-to-consumer-drug-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/02\/edwards-proposed-2-year-ban-on-direct-to-consumer-drug-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards Proposed 2 Year Ban on Direct to Consumer Drug Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the courts would shoot this one down, the SCOTUS lately has been very much in favor of &#8220;commercial speech&#8221;, but it could be tied to the expedited drug approval processes used.  His point is a valid one though, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/10\/edwards_2year_ban_on_new_drug.php\">many of these drugs have, at best, a limited improvement on effectiveness for <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">some<\/span> people<\/a> (tests on blood pressure medication found <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">no<\/span> benefit from the newer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>It is the consumer who pays for these ads, both just covering the costs, and through people demanding new drugs from their doctors when the old drug works as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the courts would shoot this one down, the SCOTUS lately has been very much in favor of &#8220;commercial speech&#8221;, but it could be tied to the expedited drug approval processes used. His point is a valid one though, many of these drugs have, at best, a limited improvement on effectiveness for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}