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posted 03/09/2008, comments (0)

Rx Drugs: What People Think--and Ask For

Drug advertising works: More than a third of people surveyed by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that they'd asked a doctor for a prescription for a drug they saw advertised on TV. And 82 percent of the time the doctor wrote a prescription. Two other key findings, quoting from the report... Read moreChevron
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posted 02/21/2008, comments (0)

Candidates target drug makers. Prices rise

Despite the candidates calling for lower drug prices--or maybe because of it--drug prices rose almost 8 percent last year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. That's nearly double the general inflation rate.  Writes the Journal on the politics of drug prices: Drug makers are trying to keep revenues afloat by raising... Read moreChevron
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