SAN MATEO, Calif., April 7, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Epocrates, Inc. (Nasdaq:EPOC), a leading provider of interactive services to the healthcare industry, today announced the recent launch of a new ...

Adding more to the prescription adherence/non-adherence data field is a study by the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy’s Program Evaluation Research Unit that found that handing a patient a ...

Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical companies could actually be costing uninsured patients more in the long run, according to a study done by researchers at Wake Forest ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It struck me that the answers to this question are largely generational, and even more so that they might ...

The tradition of American physicians handing out free drug samples to their patients "has many serious disadvantages and is as anachronistic as bloodletting and high colonic irrigations," say two ...

Fearing that pharmaceutical samples drive up drug spending, health systems in Wisconsin, Washington, and elsewhere have recently told drug representatives that they can no longer hand out samples to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Dermatologists tend to prescribe more expensive medications when they also give their patients drug samples, according to a new U.S. study. "If you're a patient who ...

But people banking on the freebies need to think again, according to a new study that shows patients who get samples end up with significantly higher out-of-pocket costs than those who don’t. On ...

Samples are also ineffective, they say, at lowering patient costs. "Indeed, evidence shows that patients who received free samples had higher out-of-pocket costs than their counterparts who were not ...