Mind the gap: understanding the effects of pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising.

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*Department of Epidemiology †Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ‡Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Published: April 2014

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