tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392169162591266789.post3537075766290740231..comments2023-10-22T09:05:26.959-07:00Comments on Blond Ambition: Seroquel XR / Quetiapine / Seroquel / Ketipinor: don't say you weren't warned!Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392169162591266789.post-76025951121913956912011-09-04T00:37:32.445-07:002011-09-04T00:37:32.445-07:00I guess if the drug companies are allowed to prese...I guess if the drug companies are allowed to present the supposed benefits of the product in ads, they should also be obliged to present the rest of the story too. Over here in Australia we have a drug regulation authority which in quite useless, and we have a very different legal system that does not give as much access to the legal system to ordinary people. In some areas I think the US is superior to the way we do things here, but regarding drug advertising I prefer the situation that we have here in Australia, with drug ads being restricted to doctor's publications, so there's not the same phenomenon here with ridiculously long disclaimers in TV ads. Even better would be ban ads for this type of product altogether - decisions about prescribing medications should be well above the level of advertising.Lili Marlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5392169162591266789.post-90945503238650241752011-09-04T00:21:18.907-07:002011-09-04T00:21:18.907-07:00Listing the often horrid side effects of medicatio...Listing the often horrid side effects of medications is recent (past 6 years?)in the US and happened during the last Bush administration which really intrigued me as the general policy of Republican politics is lack of government telling large corporations to do anything against their best financial benefit...so why suddenly require them to mention side effects that might make people avoid buying the medication ? Granted, it saves insurance companies and government supported medicaid from having to shell out money to buy meds if people are afraid to take them and probably adds some protection in law suits but I was shocked that the "big-pharma" didn't put the breaks on this current requirement .krexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06928818585686147616noreply@blogger.com