The file contains comments of various instances to the public consultation by the European Commission on a legal proposal on information to patients on medicinal products. It includes BECU's position paper 'Put Health First' (23/10/2007).

It contains also the following surveys:

- Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines: a review of international policy and evidence' by Colin Meek for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (2001).
- Symposium report 'Providing prescription medicine information to consumers: is there a role for direct-to-consumer promotion?' by Health Action International Europe (HAI) (2002).
- Reviews of materials in the World Health Organisation(WHO)/HAI database on drug promotion 'Drug promotion What we now, what we have yet to learn' by Pauline Norris, Andrew Herxheimer, Joel Lexchin and Peter Mansfield (2005).

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