Drug Companies spend more on marketing than research

consumerist.com — It's okay for drug companies to spend oodles on advertising because they spend even more making sure their drugs are safe and effective, right? Not so much, according to a study in PLOS Medicine.In reality, drug companies pour $57.5 billion into marketing, dwarfing the comparably paltry $31.5 billion devoted to research. Jan 10, 2008 View in Crawl 4