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Drug ads have consumers seeing stars

...Actress Lauren Hutton previously promoted the two drugs.

•Actress Lorraine Bracco discusses depression for Pfizer, maker of antidepressant Zoloft; she’s been treated for depression.

•Soap opera actor Mark Consuelos discusses managing diabetes for Abbott Diabetes Care, maker of glucose monitoring systems and test strips; his father has diabetes and a relative died of complications.

•Singer Julie Andrews discussed osteoporosis for Evista maker Eli Lilly; her mother has the brittle-bone disease.

•Actor Rob Lowe speaks on infection during chemotherapy, which his father suffered, for Neulasta maker Amgen.

•“Wonder Woman” star Lynda Carter discussed irritable bowel syndrome for Zellnarm maker Novartis.

•Actor Kelsey Grammar and wife, Camille, discussed irritable bowel syndrome, which she has, on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline as it prepared to launch Lotronex.

•“E.R.” star Noah Wylie discussed skin cancer for Schering-Plough, which makes Intron A for melanoma, and discussed post-traumatic stress disorder shortly after the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist attacks, for Pfizer, maker of Zoloft for that disorder and other psychiatric conditions.

•Basketball star Magic Johnson did AIDS awareness ads for GlaxoSmithKline, which makes about 10 HIV drugs.

•Former Sen.

Bob Dole encouraged treatment for impotence in ads paid for by Viagra maker Pfizer...

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