Free meals from drug companies affect physicians’ prescribing habits

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Just a single free meal from a pharmaceutical company may sway physicians to prescribe a brand name drug over a generic version, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

To read more about the study, including the pharmaceutical industry’s defense of offering free meals to doctors, click on the link below:  

Drug company-sponsored meals tied to more prescriptions

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