May 25, 2007

Drug Marketing Comes Under Fire

By ERIK VANCE

A majority of medical schools have no policies in place to prevent pharmaceutical companies from marketing drugs directly to students, according to a report released this month by an advocacy group representing medical students from around the country.

For its "2007 PharmFree Scorecard," the group, the American Medical Student Association, assigned medical schools a grade based on whether they had either initiated policies to prevent pharmaceutical companies from marketing on their

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