Surrogates for their agenda

By Alexander Cohen

How the drug industry uses non-profits to push its interests

Excerpts from this story referencing "American Foundation for Urologic Disease":

"… former executive director of a patients' advocacy organization called the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, said in a press release for Ditropan, "consumer campaigns like this one w …"

"… , especially the kind of direct-to-consumer advertising also touted by the American Foundation for Urologic Disease. Dr. Merrill Matthews Jr., the IPI expert who authored the drug advertisin …"

"… Continence (also an Eli Lilly-Boehringer Ingelheim-sponsored site) and the American Foundation for Urologic Disease. AFUD lists several pharmaceutical interests among its sponsors, including …"