How drug marketing shapes what your doctor prescribes

In April 2025, Gilead Sciences paid $202 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors through speaker fees and lavish dinners in return for more written prescriptions for their drugs. This is the illegal version that made the news headlines.

And the legal version? It may be sitting in your medicine cabinet.

A recent survey found that nearly 1 in 3 Americans aren’t filling their prescriptions simply due …

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How drug marketing shapes what your doctor prescribes