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FDA Panel Considers Toll-Free Number for TV Drug Ads

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By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Direct-to-consumer drug ads on television should include a toll-free phone number that would allow consumers to report adverse side effects, U.S. health experts suggested Friday.

The experts serve on a panel that advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Such phone numbers are already mandated by the FDA for print ads. At Friday's meeting, the panel discussed designing a study to determine the most effective way of adding the phone number to TV ads.


     
     
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VIDEO: Dr.Harness Explains Tamoxifen And The Side Effects

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Dr. Harness, President American Society of Breast Surgeons explains Taxoifen and the side effects.


     
     
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Possible Reason for Rimonabant's Side Effects Discovered

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By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- The weight-loss drug rimonabant has been associated with troubling psychiatric side effects, and now researchers think they have discovered why.