<em>New York Times</em>: Drug Prescription Information A "Commodity Bought And Sold In A Murky Marketplace"

: Drug Prescription information A "Commodity Bought And Sold In A Murky Marketplace"

MORE than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and promotions started after she bought fertility drugs at a pharmacy in San Diego.

Marketers got hold of her name, and she found coupons and samples in her mail that shadowed the growth of an imaginary child -- at first, for Pampers and baby formula, then for discounts on family photos, and all the way through the years to gifts suitable for an elementary school graduate.

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