Companies spent nearly $30 billion in one year marketing medical products to Americans

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 14:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Drug makers and other healthcare companies spent almost $30 billion in a single year to influence the medical choices made by Americans and steer them toward treatments that were newer, vastly more expensive and sometimes riskier than their tried-and-true alternatives, new research shows. The 2016...

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