# \[e-drug\] Ensuring ethical drug promotion--whose responsibility? (cont'd) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [September 2, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-ensuring-ethical-drug-promotion-whose-responsibility-contd/17554 "2003-09-02T11:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pierchir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@pierchir](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/pierchir)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-ensuring-ethical-drug-promotion-whose-responsibility-contd/17554/1 "2003-09-02T11:19:10Z")
E-drug: Ensuring ethical drug promotion--whose responsibility? (cont'd) --------------------------------------------- Dear e-druggers, Nice to see top staff at WHO taking action against this "advertorial campaign of information" from Pfizer. La revue Prescrire critized strongly this campaign in its April issue on several grounds, one of them being that this is a public responsibility to educate patients. The daily medical newspaper Le Quotidien du M�decin (full of advertisements) published an editorial where it accused La revue Prescrire of being intolerant in refusing Big pharma the right to educate people... The European Parliament has rejected the Commission's proposal to allow DTC advertisement in Europe. Never mind, Pfizer and others are promoting their drugs by other ways. Pierre Chirac Editor la revue Prescrire France pierre chirac \ Access Essential Drugs Monitor #32 at [http://www.who.int/medicines/mon/mon32.shtml](http://www.who.int/medicines/mon/mon32.shtml) -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug](http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug)