Here is something more recent:Pharmaceutical companies fail to publicly reveal all of the money and gifts they give to physicians and health care workers—making it hard to know what the money is for …What they were doing," Ross says, "is saying that all of their payments were trade secrets … It's improbable that all of a company's payments were truly proprietary." Moreover, in 75 percent of the reports handed over to the researchers,
the companies failed to identify the gift recipients despite a legal requirement to do so, Ross says.
In Vermont, companies made 2416 such payments, which totaled $1 million. Half of all payments exceeded $177, up to a maximum of $20,000, and
68 percent were listed as food. In Minnesota, of 6238 payments totaling $22.4 million, half of the payments topped $1,000, and
the largest was $922,239.…..
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Pharmaceutical companies' "marketing techniques and their reluctance to disclose them invite further misgivings about the industry.Link to article...