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FDA attempts to regulate medical textbooks.
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Medical Marketing & Media
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April 1, 1993
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Applying a unique definition of "misleading," FDA is now attempting to censor textbooks. Two attorneys term this a clear violation of the First Amendment and explain how it hurts the public interest.
In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greatly stepped up its enforcement activities in the area of pharmaceutical promotion, exerting control over material that had previously been considered educational and therefore beyond FDA's reach.
Perhaps the most extreme example involved FDA's refusal to allow a major pharmaceutical manufacturer to distribute free copies of a recognized, widely used oncology textbook at a major medical conference. FDA's rationale was that the ...