The Chronicle of Higher Education

Study Finds Drug Samples Go to Wealthy Patients

Free drug samples promoted as a way of getting medications into the hands of needy patients more often than not end up lining the medicine cabinets of wealthy and insured patients, according to a study by physicians from Harvard Medical School and one of its teaching affiliates, Cambridge Health Alliance.

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