{"id":150395,"date":"2025-09-17T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150395\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:56:07","slug":"fda-crackdown-flags-oprah-video-and-drug-ad-with-morgan-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150395\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Crackdown Flags Oprah Video and Drug Ad With Morgan Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US regulators issued a flurry of letters calling out pharmaceutical companies for allegedly misleading ads, part of a promised Trump administration crackdown on the industry\u2019s ubiquitous TV spots, and warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LLY:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Eli Lilly &amp; Co.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NOVOB:DC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Novo Nordisk A\/S<\/a> about their blockbuster obesity drug marketing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Most of the letters, sent to companies including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AZN:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">AstraZeneca Plc<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BMY:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bristol Myers Squibb Co.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/ABBV:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">AbbVie Inc.<\/a>, detail concerns with their online, broadcast and print marketing, ranging from hiring actors who appear too healthy to omitting key safety risks. Among the offending ads are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BBIO:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">BridgeBio Pharma Inc.<\/a>\u2019s commercial for its heart drug that stars Morgan Freeman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/PHAT:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Phathom Pharmaceuticals Inc.<\/a> spots featuring Saturday Night Live\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenanthompson.net\/\" title=\"Link to Website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Kenan Thompson<\/a> promoting the company\u2019s treatment for heartburn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US regulators issued a flurry of letters calling out pharmaceutical companies for allegedly misleading ads, part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,7714,14208,2971,62226,7453,84,14211,377,62228,7980,79755,19772,995],"class_list":["post-150395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cancer","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health","tag-industries","tag-medication","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-pharma-inc","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}