Pharmaceutical Promotion to Physicians and First Amendment Rights
- 17 April 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 358 (16), 1727-1732
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb0708920
Abstract
Legal restrictions on off-label promotion of drugs are being challenged in the courts as a violation of First Amendment protection of “commercial speech.” The authors argue that public health concerns make pharmaceutical promotion different from other commercial speech and that more stringent regulation should be permitted.Keywords
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