Killing Me Softly: Myth in Pharmaceutical Advertising

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2004 Dec 18

PMID 15604192

Citations 4

Authors

Tim Scott

Neil Stanford

David R Thompson

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