In a message dated 98-10-23 14:07:35 EDT, you write:

<< Katie:

  I think that this may be hard to find... while they may "buy" commercial
time
 if they actually were assisting with funding this would open a legal quagmire
 that is unlikely that a network would get into...

        Patricia
  >>

Patricia--

IT turns out that the national trade organization for the pharma ceutical
industry did indeed openly fund the show and support the storyline as
"educational".


Katie