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19.11.08 # 0:25Visited 36 times, 1 so far today# Health # No Comment
Ruling in support of a New Hampshire law, the federal court upheld the right of states to prohibit the sale of doctor-specific prescription drug data.
Pharmaceutical industry and companies that collect prescription data for use in drug marketing are facing setback after the ruling of federal appeals court.
The case is a defeat for two large data-mining companies, IMS Health and Verispan.
They sued in 2006 to block implementation of the New Hampshire law, which prohibited the sale of computerized data showing which doctors were prescribing what drugs.
The law was intended to cut down on state health care costs by eliminating the tool used by drug sales representatives in promoting brand name drugs.
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