Washington: American researchers have found in a recent study that most of the doctors promoting a particular drug on social media platform X have received compensation from the companies.
According to media reports, the study published in the journal ‘JAMA’ has been jointly conducted by researchers from several American medical institutions. The team identified drugs promoted by doctors on X and then discovered through the OpenPayments website that these doctors were paid by pharmaceutical companies.
The US is one of the few developed countries that allows pharmaceutical companies to advertise and sell their drugs through radio, television and social media platforms.
Even in the US it is legal for doctors and other medical professionals to receive compensation from companies for promoting drugs.
It should be noted that the OpenPayments website helps identify doctors in the US who have received money to advertise certain drugs on social media, while also revealing the names of the paying companies.
The research team said that although the practice of paying or receiving money for drug promotion may be unethical to some people, it is not illegal and does not affect medical licensing.
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