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When do efficacy claims for toothpaste become medicinal and is describing a dental surgeon as ‘Dr’ really misleading? James Pond reports on a perhaps surprising scrape GSK got into in…

A poster claimed powerfully that a clear majority of the UK’s dentists recommended Colgate. How robust was the supporting data and was there another fatal flaw? Anna Montes reports the…

It’s a $4b business in the USA, New Zealand has gone there but pulled back and the EU bans it. But does a recent Brussels announcement open the door to…

Not to be outdone by other ad regulators, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has set out its stall for achieving more medicines advertising compliance. We report on its…

The crusade for lifting the ban on advertising prescription drugs to consumers has hardly been helped by the recent fluctuating fortunes of advertising for an apparently revolutionary new contraceptive pill.…