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Study Questions the Value of Free Drug Samples for Kids

Posted on October 06, 2008

In an era when even the drug industry frowns on drug reps giving doctors trinkets and fancy gifts, the drug samples reps give docs to hand out free to patients are more important than ever.But the samples aren t especially likely to reach poor children. And many popular samples wind up running into safety trouble, a new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests. Researchers from Harvard med school analyzed data from a federal survey, and found that in 2004 children in the lowest income group weren t more likely than those in the highest group to get free samples in part because poor chi...

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