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"If you're having trouble paying for your medications, Drug Company X may be able to help." You may have heard sentences like this at the end of pharmaceutical ads on television, and some clinicians may wonder what exactly the companies do to help their patients. The help usually comes in the form of what drugmakers call a "copay coupon" or copay assistance card for, say, $50 that the patient can present at the pharmacy counter to lower the amount they have to pay for their prescription. Insurers are notified when their patients use copay coupons, and many of them use the data to compile "cop...

email article A Florida doctor has pleaded guilty to falsifying clinical trial data for an asthma medication that was being studied in young children, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Yvelice Villaman-Bencosme, MD, admitted that, from 2013 to 2016, she participated in a scheme to defraud the pharmaceutical company behind the drug by fabricating data and participation in the clinical trial. The trial, conducted at Unlimited Medical Research in Miami, was meant to study the safety and efficacy of an asthma medication in children ages 4 to 11. Villaman-Bencosme, who served as the ...

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email article The founder of America's Frontline Doctors -- the physician group notorious for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 -- confirmed that she participated in the riot on Capitol Hill last week. Simone Gold, MD, JD, a California doctor who has touted the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and raised unfounded concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines, admitted to the Washington Post that she joined the mob that stormed the Capitol last Wednesday. Gold confirmed to the Post that it was indeed her in the image and the video. She added that she followed a crowd inside the buildin...

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