VT Edition: Paul Harrington & Wendy Morgan on new drug marketing rules

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This month the governor signed into law new rules that strengthen Vermont’s already tough approach to pharmaceutical manufacturers that provide gifts to physicians. Supporters of the law say it curbs the problem of physicians giving preferential treatment to some drugs or drug makers, rather than using science and medical outcomes as the basis for prescribing drugs.

VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Paul Harrington of the Vermont Medical Society, which represents doctors, about why VMS supports this law. She also talks with Assistant Attorney General Wendy Morgan about how the updated rules will be implemented and what information consumers can access about the gifts their doctors might have received from drug makers.

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