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Study Shows Significant Increase In Medical Marketing Spending Over Past 2 Decades12:01
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It's all too familiar — you're watching your favorite TV show, then it goes to a commercial break, and you see drug ads for everything from bipolar depression to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that spending on medical marketing skyrocketed from $17.7 billion in 1997 to $29.9 billion in 2016, and that spending on advertising directly to patients rose the fastest.
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Dr. Steven Woloshin, physician, professor and researcher at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
This segment aired on January 3, 2019.
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