Senators Look To Limit Drug Makers Use Of Prescription Data

By Maggie Mertens When you fill a doctor's prescription, the information about it, minus your personal details, gets bought by a company that then probably sells it to drug makers. They use the data to figure out how to get individual doctors to prescribe Read More...

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Posted Dec 11 2009, 12:40 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health News
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