PUBLIC MARKS from adfunk with tags drugs & pharmacy

While we are busy keeping up with our daily jobs, Internet has been playing an important role to make our life easier while coping up with the busyness in our daily jobs. For example, one can just search for information from the World Wide Web, rather than going to the library searching for the correct source and reference. One can also shops online anytime anywhere. Everything seems so close to us, when we have the Internet and have the knowledge using it.

WASHINGTON - Television drug advertisements rely heavily on emotional appeals rather than comprehensive disease information to attract consumers’ attention, according to one of the first studies to analyze such commercials. The study, published in the Annals of Family Medicine Monday, investigated dozens of TV drug ads for some of the nation’s top-selling drugs at those times when most viewers tune in. Researchers analyzed the ads based on how they portrayed the medication and disease, emotions and lifestyles changes. They found companies used various tactics to appeal to viewers with limited facts that could oversimplify their decisions.