Disease awareness or subtle product placement? Orphan diseases featured in the television series "House, M.D." - a cross-sectional analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: Orphan diseases with a designated and/or approved orphan drug were overrepresented in the television series "House, M.D." with statistical significance while orphan diseases overall were not. This may be explained by (so far) undocumented efforts of pharmaceutical companies to place their orphan drugs in the television series, as described in the article in Bloomberg Businessweek. Further research is needed into marketing practices in popular and emerging media formats.
PMID: 32171294 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - Category: Information Technology Authors: Mechler K, Rausch J, Mountford WK, Ries M Tags: BMC Med Ethics Source Type: research
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