CSPAN2 March 12, 2015
The promotion of the drug starts seven to 10 years before a drug comes on the market and while its illegal for a company to market a drug before its been approved by the fda its not illegal to market a disease so Drug Companies have sometimes invented diseases or exaggerated the importance of a certain condition or exaggerated the importance of a particular mechanism of a drug for example and then blanketed medical journals and medical meetings and other venues with these messages that are meant to prepare the minds of clinicians to accept a particular drug and also to prepare the minds of con...