New Hampshire Rules on Prescription Privacy

From the Associated Press via the New York Times:

A federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of the state's first-in-the-nation law that restricts drug company access to some information about doctors' prescription-writing habits. The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, overturns a lower court decision that said the confidentiality law unconstitutionally infringed on free speech.

This ruling means that drug companies which use doctor and patient data to tailor their sales pitches will no longer have access to that sensitive information. A major victory for patient privacy!

New Hampshire: Ruling on Prescriptions [Associated Press via New York Times] 

Meet Ray F.

My name is Ray Funatsu and I've been a pharmacist since 1963. In '74 I started working as a manager with Sav-on until '94; that's when I stepped down because it got to be a little too much. I worked until 2000 and retired and now I'm on-call.