Nearly three-quarters of drugs advertised on television provide little benefit, according to a study in JAMA Network Open in January. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School obtained a list of the 81 top-advertised drugs in the U.S. from a database spanning from 2015 to 2021 and then evaluated the therapeutic claims […]
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