A new database compiled by the national investigative news organization ProPublica lays bare the financial relationships between seven pharmaceutical companies and the nation's physicians -- relationships that can amount to more than $100,000 a year for promoting drugs to others in the medical profession.
In Ohio, the pharmaceutical data reveal that 15 physicians each received more than $100,000 from one or more of the seven drug companies from January 2009 to June 2010. Six of these physicians practice in the greater Cleveland area.
Physicians in the Cleveland area made more than $3.7 million from pharmaceutical payments over the 18 month period of the investigation. Almost one third of that went to the top six earners.
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