The influence of the promotional practices of pharmaceutical manufacturers on the prescribing behaviour of physicians has long been recognized. Since the early 1980s, studies of this phenomenon have ...

Medical publications distributed freely to health professionals often promote drugs that are costly or have potential problems, says a new study warning that such practices could influence which drugs ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Free medical journals crammed with glossy ads could be swaying doctors to prescribe new expensive drugs with unknown long-term risks, German researchers said Monday. They ...

The world’s 65 poorest countries will have free internet access to nearly 1000 top biomedical journals from January 2002, in an initiative brokered by the World Health Organization, the British ...