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I first started writing this blog in 2006. I was basically frustrated at the lack of transparency coming out of the MHRA - My first post pointed to a story from 2004, it was, in essence, an article by Richard Brook giving the reasons as to why he resigned from the Expert Working Group who reviewed the safety of antidepressants.
Brook was then the CEO for the mental health charity, MIND, and he had accused the MHRA of failing in its duty by not acting on data showing that thousands of people were taking unsafe doses of Seroxat.
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'THE EVIDENCE, HOWEVER, IS CLEAR...THE SEROXAT SCANDAL' By Bob Fiddaman
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So you don't want direct to cunsumer advertising? But you do want pharmaceutical companies giving information directly to consumers? And where do you think the line will be drawn between information and advertising? See the point?
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't see the point?
ReplyDeleteAdvertisements tell half truths, one only has to look at the current Horlick's debacle in India - Another GlaxoSmithKline product!
If a consumer has a query about a product then he/she should be given answers to that query and not shut out by some guideline that was designed to keep the public from the truth.
See the point?