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Doctors Surveyed Thirteen Years Apart Took More Drug Samples and Talked with Sales Reps Far More Often

A 13-year follow-up survey found that free drug samples nearly doubled and conversations with pharmaceutical reps rose sharply as trainees moved into practice.

Medical Daily · Sep 14

Legal questions swirl around FDA's new expedited drug program, including who should sign off

A plan to slash Food and Drug Administration drug review times is raising alarms at the public health agency that's been rocked by recent layoffs and resignations

The Independent UK · Jan 16

Trump officials ‘secretly’ changed US health data in ‘gender ideology’ crackdown, researchers allege

About half of US datasets studied were “substantially altered” in the two months after Donald Trump assumed the presidency, an investigation has found.

Euronews · Jul 4, 2025