[e-drug] Drug companies and medical profession (4)

E-DRUG: Drug companies and medical profession (4)
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Hi,

This is great information and I appreciate your concern. When the protectors of ethics, the official bodies like Indian Dental Association (IDA) and Indian Medical Association (IMA) are sponsoring consumer products, whom else to look up to? The latest to be sponsored after toothpaste from IDA is chewing gum. The latest after sposorship of soap, water filter is fruit juice from IMA.

We have been voluntarily studying misuse of WHO name and emblem in promotional activities since last three years and have repeatedly thought of closing this study but the misuse is so rampant that newer ways are found, forcing us to continue.

Dr Vijay Thawani
Nagpur, India

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