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Ever wonder how drug marketing plays into what your doctor prescribes? A team of researchers found that D.C.-based health care providers who got gifts — including cash, meals and ownership interests — from pharmaceutical companies prescribed more drugs per patient, wrote more expensive prescriptions and were more likely to recommend brand names.

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