Drug safety and the media.
This article reviews the problems that may arise as a result of media coverage of drug safety issues. In order to promote more balanced coverage and avoid unnecessary scares, professionals working in the area of drug safety should rethink their strategies for dealing with the media.
Waller
Patrick C
PC
patrick.waller@btinternet.com
Evans
Stephen J W
SJ
Beard
Keith
K
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media