CHOICE campaigns for you
(Updated 07/08)
Read about our priorities, our achievements and how we campaign.
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Xenical
(Updated 02/07)
CHOICE is concerned the weight loss drug is being sold inappropriately.
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Xenical advertising ban upheld
(Online 08/07)
Roche loses court battle to overturn advertising ban.
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Xenical advertising campaign 10/06
(Online 10/06)
CHOICE's letters to the National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee, Australian Self Medication Industry and the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Council.
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Submission: Xenical
(Updated 04/07)
Xenical should be rescheduled as a 'prescription only' medication.
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Online pharmacies ignore Xenical ad ban
(Online 10/07)
A CHOICE investigation reveals some pharmacies are still promoting Xenical online.
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Drug advertising
(Online 06/04)
Pharmaceutical companies are finding sneaky -- but effective -- ways of getting around laws that prevent direct advertising of prescription medicines to the public. Should we be worried?
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Challenge to Xenical ad ban thrown out
(Online 08/07)
CHOICE welcomes the Federal Court's decision to reject a challenge made by pharmaceutical company Roche, to the advertising ban on weight loss drug Xenical.
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Xenical advertising ban welcomed
(Online 02/07)
Consumer watchdog CHOICE has welcomed the withdrawal of advertising approval for the weight-loss drug XENICAL.
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The hard sell (archived)
(Online 01/03)
Globally, pharmaceutical companies spend twice as much money on marketing and administration as they do on research and development. With its new code of conduct being scrutinised by the nation's consumer watchdog, the pharmaceutical industry is at a crossroads. Nicola Ballenden and Martyn Goddard report.
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