There’s no such thing as a free lunch, drug industry edition
- $6.3B the value of the free samples that prescription drug companies offered to medical facilities in 2011. Sounds like a great deal, right? Not really—according to the latest edition of JAMA Dermatology, the drugs actually ending up helping out the drug companies more than patients. Why’s that? Because, quite often, these free samples are for costlier brand-name drugs—so while the first one is free, the ones you have to take down the line will cost ya. source
April 19, 2014 // 14:43 // 10 years ago