‘Nightly News’ kicks around Restless Legs

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Fortunately, I don’t spend much time thinking about Restless Legs Syndrome, except when I see ads for its prescription cure, Requip, during the NBC Nightly News. So, I was intrigued last night when the show actually did a segment on Restless Legs Syndrome and, more specifically, why Glaxo advertises Requip so heavily on said news program. “Motivated by a commercial by one of our sponsors, we asked our correspondent Josh Mankieweicz to do some checking,” Brian Williams intoned before running the segment.

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