As Health and Human Services secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. is a menace to us all and ought to be removed as soon as possible. But he’s right about one matter, and, in a break from his usual practice ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In today’s media landscape, you know what outrages me the most? Seeing those repetitive, dreamlike and misleading prescription drug commercials that seem to ...

This article first appeared in the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. Pharmaceutical ads in the United States are annoying. Absurd. And almost uniquely American. In fact, only one other high-income ...

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Wegovy, Farxiga, Vraylar ... the stream of drug ads on TV has gotten so pervasive that they’re bringing together an unlikely pair of politicians to take them on. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie ...

CNN admitted Wednesday policies to limit pharmaceutical TV advertising that are being considered by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could cripple the TV news business.

With the arrival of new fall programming, television viewers will once again be bombarded with advertisements for prescription drugs. But a recent executive order signed by President Trump has taken ...

Of all of the Trump administration’s policy initiatives, this might be the one with the widest base of non-MAGA support. On Tuesday, the White House announced that it planned to make it much more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Getty Images/Christopher Smith for TheWrap) ...

Despite debate, drug companies pay celebrities to hype disease awareness. April 1, 2009— -- People love their celebrities and advertisers love their power to sell virtually anything: makeup, ...

Though spending on pharmaceutical TV ads picked up last month following a summer slump, the third quarter’s overall total still paled in comparison to the preceding periods this year. In Q3, the top ...