http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/20063 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/those-least-needy-most-likely-get-free-drug-samples <!--paging_filter--><p>Most free drug&nbsp; samples are&nbsp; not used to ease&nbsp; the burden of the poor or the uninsured, but rather go to those most able to pay for their prescriptions, according to a&nbsp; study by&nbsp; physicians from <a title="" href="http://www.challiance.org/">Cambridge Health Alliance</a> and <a title="" href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu">Harvard Medical&nbsp;&nbsp; School</a>. The study, which is the first to look at the free drug samples pharmaceutical companies provide to physicians, will appear in the February 2008 issue of the <a title="" href="http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2007.114249v1">American&nbsp; Journal&nbsp; of Public Health</a>. <br /><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/those-least-needy-most-likely-get-free-drug-samples">read more</a></p> Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:15:20 -0500 404132862 20064 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu