FDA's medical advertising hotline
Executive Summary
The agency has received 36 calls since the telephone lines become operational on Sept. 16, Medical Staff Director Peter Rheinstein tells a Sept. 30 Food and Drug Law Institute meeting on device advertising. He said that "two or three or four [calls] were on drug advertising or biologic advertising," and a few calls were from physicians who were concerned about the ethics of drug companies giving them something for enrolling in studies. The first article announcing the hotline appears in the Oct. 2 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. . . .
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