The Nation - News from Nov. 6, 1987
The Federal Aviation Administration assailed a pharmaceutical company’s ad implying that doctors should prescribe a certain tranquilizer for air traffic controllers. The Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals ad for BuSpar (buspirone) was brought to the agency’s attention after Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Public Health Citizen Research Group, received a flyer for the ad in the mail.
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