The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Bad Ad Program, an effort to encourage physicians and other healthcare providers to report "suspected untruthful or misleading prescription drug promotion," ...

On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (“OPDP”) issued numerous untitled letters as part of the agency’s wider attack on direct to ...

The FDA is apparently not charmed by the mischievous “Lipid Lurkers” in an Esperion Therapeutics commercial for cholesterol-lowering drug Nexlizet. An untitled letter (PDF) from the agency, dated Dec.

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent executive action directing the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration to “rein in misleading” direct-to-consumer ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Martin Makary has described the current state of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising as a “public health crisis” in the US, citing lax ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA said it will send letters to pharmaceutical companies asking for the removal of “misleading” drug ads.

WASHINGTON — For the first time, federal health officials are taking aim at telehealth companies promoting unofficial versions of prescription drugs — including popular weight loss medications — as ...

Specifically, the agency took Esperion to task for two violations: false or misleading exclusivity claims and visual distractions from product safety warnings. Esperion’s Lipid Lurkers educational ...

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 ...

The FDA is urging Novo Nordisk to correct what it said were “misleading” claims the drugmaker made in a television advertisement for its new Wegovy pill. The agency sent a letter to Novo Nordisk Feb.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Those ever-present TV drug ...