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Consumers Union Advertising Effort Puts Human Face on Victims of Weak Prescription Drug Safety Laws
June 26th, 2007
Consumers Union (CU), the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, is launching a coordinated advertising and activism effort as a cap to its two-year battle to strengthen drug safety laws. Congress is poised this summer to take up the most significant prescription drug safety legislation in 45 years. The CU effort centers around a full-page ad in the June 12th edition of USA Today, the same day a House panel is expected to take up drug safety legislation. The ad puts a face and a name to the victims of the current prescription drug laws, which do not require drug companies to make public their clinical drug studies, where adverse side effects often are...
Source: Drug Law Weekly (2007-06-26)
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