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Policy Forum Soft Targets: Nurses and the Pharmaceutical Industry Annemarie Jutel , David B. Menkes * “O ur Special Projects Division produces a wide portfolio of therapy and prodsvcs/cinahldb.htm) databases without date restriction in May 2007, using the terms “pharmaceutical industry,” “drug sales,” “direct-to- consumer,” and “pharmaceutic*,” and restricted to nursing journals. We searched the same terms without the nursing journal restriction, combined with the truncated search terms “nurs*” and prescri*.” A search combining the term “nurs*” with “gift,” a hand search, and references from colleagues completed our research. was not evident in the articles we located. Of the 32 articles, 13 expressed or reported serious concerns about the role of the pharmaceutical industry, and four were clearly industry-friendly; these are explored in greater depth in Table 2. The remaining publications either expressed mild concern about the pharmaceutical industry, viewed the support of the industry as generally favourable, or identi?ed both the harms and bene?ts of the industry’s involvement in health care. topic-speci?c materials…available for sponsorship by companies who wish to promote their products or services, while visibly supporting nurse education,” [1] invitesNursing Standard, the journal of the United Kingdom Royal College of Nursing. The commercial sponsorship of nursing education exempli?ed by this advertisement re?ects the fact that nurses have increasing power to choose products and services, and to in?uence choices made by medical and other colleagues [2]. Prescription pharmaceuticals provide a notable example of how nurses have become, as proclaimed above, a desirable target for a powerful industry. This industry has been robustly critiqued in the medical literature for exploiting patients and doctors using a range of techniques: direct-to- consumer advertising (DTCA) [3–6], sponsored teaching materials [7], advertising in professional media [8,9], research