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After Generics Enter Market, World's Top Selling Drug Sees Sales Plunge

AP | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 12.20.2011 | Business
Read More: Video, Ldl, Crestor, Generic-Pharmaceuticals, Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., Lipitor, Bad Cholesterol, IMS Health, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Target, Patent, Pfizer Inc., Business News

TRENTON, N.J. -- Sales of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor plunged by half barely a week after the world's top-selling drug got its first U.S. generic ...

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Why Don't You Profit When Pharmacies Sell Your Prescription Data?

Jake Whitney | Posted 07.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Walgreen, IMS Health, Data Mining, Class Action Lawsuit, Facebook, Prescription Data, Cvs, Sorrell, Politics News
Jake Whitney

The battle over prescription data has been raging since 2006, and it is more than just another skirmish in the ongoing war over information privacy. The sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship is at stake.

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The Supreme Court and the Spying-on-Doctors Industry

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Pharmaceutical Industry, Love and Other Drugs, Free Speech, IMS Health, Vermont, Big Pharma, John Roberts, Citizens United, Prescription Data, Clarence Thomas, Politics News
Jake Whitney

How much influence should pharmaceutical companies have over doctors? The Supreme Court has agreed to review a Vermont law that prohibits the use of prescription data for marketing purposes.

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