MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD

THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for July 1987 is presented to Larry Katzenstein Consumer Reports: Katzen§feirt reveals how drug m.u tat i kui (-Ts pressure doctors, pharmacists,...

...Nominations for stories published or ati7ed September will close October 15 and nnouneed in tie December issue...
...The award for stories pbbtislied 4,§r aired in August will be announced in the November,.issue...
...A few in ( .411I1 later, the eOmpatties that manufacture thew branci-yacoQ anti-seizure drugs, bought advertiscinerns journal, ancj donatO dollars for-initiate The Monthly Journalism Award is piesenicd each month to the best newspaper, mac:1741c, television, or radio story (or series 0^storiesi of our political system...
...justify such a warning...
...It's a public rclaiions blitz with huge stakes: Americans -spend billion each year on prescription dr23L.,., To promote its Inderal Ity perreiisi on Meckicine, Ayerst Laboratories sent pharmacists ictiers \+ 'dining that they might be hit b' kmitity s'utt...
...Two copies of the artk broacjcast„let should iCcompany th ati...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for July 1987 is presented to Larry Katzenstein Consumer Reports: Katzen§feirt reveals how drug m.u tat i kui (-Ts pressure doctors, pharmacists, and publicc ticahh officials to dispense brand-name medical loa's even though generics are almost aS' good—and cost much less...
...V..\ en public:health groups bave joined f rav::„ In 1986, the Epilepsy Institute issued an .aleri about generic substitutes for three drugs, even . though it had - little evideuec io...
...they dispensed a generic SIM( hi: ie Beckman rented Di s nrn land lot- . evening to entertain doctors and , thcit laiiiities...
...The ,kiblect can be government in its_ federal, ,stae, municipal manifestation...
...Nominations tsar any newspaper, magazine, or radio or rele,:kion station in the country are welcome...

Vol. 19 • October 1987 • No. 9


 
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