Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to pay a doctor to promote a drug to colleagues and other medical professionals. The marketing of a little red pill used to treat a rare disease is raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year as it aggressively targets frail and elderly nursing home residents for whom the pill may be unnecessary or even unsafe , a CNN report has said .
The marketing of a little red pill used to treat a rare disease is raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year as it aggressively targets frail and elderly nursing home residents for whom the pill may be unnecessary or even unsafe , a CNN report has said .