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Revised PhRMA Code Provides a New Roadmap

Providing physicians with up-to-date, accurate information about the medicines they prescribe clearly improves patient care and advances health care in general. Nonetheless, the public health need for informed and educated HCPs may, at times, create tension with the pharmaceutical industry's perceived drive for profits.

20 minute read August 27, 2008 at 08:55 AM
By
Debra Sydnor
Revised PhRMA Code Provides a New Roadmap

Advances in medicine and science continue at a breakneck pace and the need to keep physicians and other health care professionals (HCPs) abreast of these advances will grow ever more critical.

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