http://wfae.org en http://wfae.org/post/pharmaceutical-marketing <p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Viagra, </span>Cialis<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> and </span>Levitra<span style="line-height: 1.5;">... those erectile dysfunction commercials that air while you're watching sitcoms aren’t just awkward and uncomfortable, according to a new study, they are breaking rules too. Those rules, designed by the pharmaceutical industry itself, are meant to ensure the campaigns educate consumers and avoid targeting audiences for which the message is not age appropriate - like children. But the study out of </span>UNC<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> Charlotte says that 'Big </span>Pharma's<span style="line-height: 1.5;">' efforts to self-regulate are "an industry-sponsored ruse" with the intention to deflect criticism and block any new Federal regulations. We'll talk with the researchers about direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing - about the effectiveness and the ethics behind the ads. Sex, Lies and Television, when Charlotte Talks.</span></p><p> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:00 +0000 22216 at http://wfae.org Pharmaceutical Marketing http://wfae.org/post/police-round-family-west-charlotte-drug-bust <p></p><p></p><p>Charlotte police and federal drug officials on Friday rounded up nine men and the matriarch of a family selling cocaine and marijuana in the Enderly Park neighborhood. &nbsp;</p><p></p> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:36:58 +0000 Julie Rose 19729 at http://wfae.org Police Round Up Family In West Charlotte Drug Bust