The Los Angeles Times examines a practice called data mining in which drug companies track how doctors prescribe medications by obtaining data from pharmacies and health insurers. "That information has become not just a powerful sales and marketing tool for the pharmaceutical industry but also a source of growing concern among some elected officials, healthcare advocates and legal authorities...," the Times reports. "Knowing in detail what individual doctors are prescribing enables drug makers to fine-tune their messages when sales reps call on doctors...
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