FDA Commissioner Makary believes pharmaceutical ads are 'getting out of control'

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00:00It's getting out of control. It's distorting the doctor-patient relationship, these endless

00:04pharmaceutical ads. This is something doctors are united on. The FDA had been lax in enforcing

00:13the regulations on pharma ads. Being misleading. Yeah, on them being misleading. We have regulations

00:19that they have to provide a fair balance of information. They can't create a misleading

00:24impression. You say the singing, dancing ads. Oh, I was singing and dancing or marching,

00:31you know, marching from some fake town to I don't know where they're going. But you watch

00:36these things nonstop and you're like, okay, I'll take it. I don't know what it is. I think

00:40I heard sudden death and then complication.