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Drugmakers: Moratorium On Advertising New Drugs

June 20, 2008 | 
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June 16, 2008 - Pharmalot -- Responding to pressure from Congress, Merck, Schering-Plough, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer agreed to a six-month moratorium on DTC ads for new drugs and will limit how docs are used in their ads.
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