Tylenol/aspirin ad
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals touts concomitant acetaminophen and aspirin use with a "Buddy System" print ad appearing in the July 7 New England Journal of Medicine. The ad shows a box of St. Joseph's low-dose aspirin with the statement, "Contains the dosage recommended most by doctors for effective cardiac prevention." The product is paired with Tylenol Arthritis Pain, which "has not been shown to increase the risk of GI bleeding in people taking aspirin, the way NSAIDs sometimes can," copy notes. The ad echoes a 2004 campaign advocating Tylenol over ibuprofen for low-dose aspirin users (1"The Tan Sheet" April 5, 2004, p. 7)...