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Advertising prescription drugs - time for change? August 18, 2019

Advertising prescription drugs - time for change? August 18, 2019

Advertising prescription drugs - time for change? August 18, 2019 Advertising prescription drugs - time for change? August 18, 2019, 16.16 MB
Monday, August 12, 2019

New Zealand is one of very few countries that allows advertising of prescription medicine to consumers. Doctors groups have been pushing for years for the government to enact changesto the law to ban the practice. Lachlan spoke with Richard Medlicott, medical director of the Royal New Zealand college of general practitioners about why there is a need for the ban.