OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs in the United States on Canadian prescribing rates for three heavily marketed drugs-etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod. DESIGN Controlled quasi-experimental study using interrupted time series analysis. POPULATION Representative sample of 2700 Canadian pharmacies and prescription data from 50 US Medica...

The current credit crunch and volatility in the financial markets is primarily blamed on two circumstances: some consumers’ misuse of mortgage credit and some mortgage lenders’ making credit available to borrowers who could hardly satisfy their credit obligations. This is an ideal time to reexamine the long-run experience concerning consumer’s use of both mortgage credit and non mortgage consum...