"Online pharmacies are advertising drugs with only upsides mentioned, contributing to America's culture of overreliance on pharmaceuticals for health," Makary wrote in a JAMA Network Open article focused on how the agency is overdue for a "crackdown on misleading pharmaceutical advertisements."
You see, until 1997, drug companies were required to include massive amounts of information about a drug's potential side effects and risks in any ads for it. The amount of information required could fit in, say, a full-page magazine ad - but it was far too much to squeeze into a 30- or 60-second TV spot. That meant pharmaceutical ads were, while not banned, almost unheard of on television.
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