Direct-to-consumer drug advertising has long been opposed by the American Medical Association — and now the Trump ...

Officials and policymakers say direct-to-consumer drug advertising encourages patients to seek treatments they don’t need and ...

It's rare to make it through an episode of your favorite show without seeing a commercial for a prescription drug that ...

As it ramps up its rollout of the first twice-yearly HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medicine, Gilead Sciences is tapping ...

Independent of FDA’s enhanced oversight, it’s clear that DTC promotion of weight loss drugs is having a moment, as companies go all in in pursuit of uptake expansion.

Alex Hogan is STAT’s senior multimedia producer and host of STATus Report, STAT’s weekly video series. You can follow him on Bluesky. If there’s any event that draws a lot of attention to TV ads, it’s ...

Damian Garde is a reporter at large, live and feature journalism, covering the global drug industry and contributing to STAT’s industry-leading events. The nation’s top drug regulator said he wants to ...

After a record-setting October that easily dwarfed all preceding months in the year, TV drug ad spending found a happy medium in November. Last month, drugmakers shelled out a combined $277.3 million ...

If there’s any event that draws a lot of attention to TV commercials, it’s the Super Bowl. Drug companies usually sit on the sidelines for the annual advertising bonanza, and one might expect this ...

The Food and Drug Administration said Novo Nordisk's TV advertisement for its newly launched Wegovy pill for obesity included "false or misleading" claims about the medicine's abilities and benefits ...

Bristol Myers Squibb and its subsidiary Karuna Therapeutics received the latest Untitled Letter from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this week. In a letter issued on December 15 to Nicole Van ...

The ethics of direct-to-consumer ads from pharmaceutical companies is being debated as the FDA looks towards possibly banning them altogether.