The following resources are available online:

October 1996 guidelines on the distribution of journal reprints and medical texts by drug companies issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/fr8oct96.htm

Transcripts of an FDA-sponsored public meeting held last October on the promotion of FDA-regulated medical products on the Internet: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morechoices/transcript1096/fdainet.html

Full text of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication letter to FDA: http://205.186.39.3/assnnews/cfhc/Comments.html

U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Inc.: http://www.usp.org

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