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Websites in de fout met medicijnreclame
de Volkskrant 2009 Aug 31
http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1283331.ece/Websites_in_de_fout_met_medicijnreclame


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Het merendeel van de websites die informatie verstrekt over aandoeningen, ziekten en geneesmiddelen overtreedt de regels voor reclame van receptgeneesmiddelen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek in opdracht van de Inspectie voor de gezondheidszorg (IGZ).
In totaal werden 41 websites onderzocht op hun reclamegedrag. Van de 41 onderzochte websites bleken er 32 gemaakt of gesponsord door fabrikanten van geneesmiddelen die alleen op doktersvoorschrift te krijgen zijn. Hiervan overtreden 23 internetpagina’s zelfs de in de geneesmiddelensector geldende richtlijnen of de Geneesmiddelenwet, concluderen de onderzoekers.

Het onderzoek richtte zich op informatie op internet over vijf veelvoorkomende aandoeningen: astma, verhoogd cholesterol, maagklachten, diabetes en depressie. Op die sites werd verwezen naar medicijnen, wat volgens de wet verboden is. Ook werd in testjes, tips en ervaringsverhalen doorverwezen naar een geneesmiddel dat alleen op recept te verkrijgen is.

Het IGZ hoopt naar aanleiding van het onderzoek in overleg met betrokken partijen de regels voor reclame voor medicijnen op het internet aan te scherpen.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909