bmc family practice this provisional pdf corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance fully formatted version will become available shortly after date of publication from url listed below a cross sectional evidence based review pharmaceutical promotional marketing brochures and their underlying studies is what they tell us important true 2006 7 13 doi 10 1186 1471 2296 roberto cardarelli rcardare hsc unt edu john c licciardone licciar lockwood g taylor lotaylor issn type research submission 25 oct 2005 3 mar http www biomedcentral com like all articles in journals peer reviewed was published immediately can be downloaded printed distributed freely for any purposes see copyright notice are pubmed archived at central information about publishing your or biomed journal go info authors et al licensee ltd an open access