Doctors and researchers try to understand what medications a person has taken by asking patients directly or by looking at medical records. But this information is often incomplete. People may forget ...

Ending the current distribution model for pharmaceutical drug samples (PDS) would have a disproportionate impact on disadvantaged populations, researchers wrote in a letter in JAAD. Instead, they said ...

Cambridge, MA...Free prescription drug samples distributed to children may be unsafe, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance and Hasbro Children's Hospital. The national ...

As a new research paper spurs debate, the countdown is ticking on a pandemic-era policy change that may affect one of healthcare marketing’s most controversial tactics. Pharma companies give away ...

As the social service providers handed out fruit snacks and water bottles on Thursday, down the block from a needle exchange on Berkeley’s University Avenue, they asked passers-by an unusual question: ...