Drug Samples May Lead to Costlier Prescriptions

Drug samples may lead to costlier prescriptions
Researchers compared prescribing habits at academic medical centers that prohibit physicians from accepting pharmaceutical companies' samples with patterns at medical centers that allow samples. They focused on medications used to treat adult acne and …
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Children prescribed codeine despite safety concerns
… large proportion of children," she says. That evidence aside, the new study shows that "hundreds of thousands of kids are still being prescribed codeine every year," most often for coughs and colds and to treat injury pain, Kaiser says … The high …
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