Pharmaceutical promotion IS persuaSIve communication (World Health Organization, 2010) which often creates the impression of superior efficacy of a medicine, \vithout a\vareness of the health professionals (Mansfield & Henry, 2004). Doctors often use pharmaceutical promotion as a source of medicines information (Fischer et a1., 2009~ McKinney e

Information on medicines provided to doctors should be of high quality to support the quality use of medicines. Pharmaceutical promotion is used by pharmaceutical companies to disseminate information about their medicines to doctors. Although the companies claim that promotion offers evidence-based information, research shows that pharmaceutical pr

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the NAV of the Islamic equity unit trust funds and selected macroeconomic variables as well as the effect of the recent global financial crisis in the Malaysian financial industry. The study also compares the performance of Islamic and conventional unit trust funds for Malaysian capit

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