Comments on: Ask Your EU Doctors About

By: bicyclemark

bicyclemark — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:20:23 +0000

Hi Andrew.. glad to see you. Spam filter held you for a while.. guess because of the link and the med references. Ill read and learn. interesting that canadian media CAN be controlled for this.. but once its cable.. its right back to ASK YOUR doctor. kind of annoying and I imagine most people have cable.. so theyre subject to these ads quite often.

By: bicyclemark

bicyclemark — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:18:15 +0000

Yeah.. we need to figure out some kind of defense against all this.

By: Fahrrad Mark

Fahrrad Mark — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:31:08 +0000

Better hurry, Its is becoming more like the US everyday.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:47:53 +0000

Hey Mark, long time no comment but I note your comment about comments.
In Canada we’re subject to a barrage of US “ask your doctor” so-called “direct-to-consumer” drug ads on cable and in the magazines abounding on our supermarket checkouts. Health Canada can’t regulate this although it can control Canadian media.
See Hebert’s article in the Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal for more information. Weird how New Zealand allows dtc ads.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/2/119?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=advertising&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:14:14 +0000

I swear Mark, everyday I want to live in Europe a little bit more.