Article: Online Health Information Seekers More Likely to Treat Allergies, Depression, Insomnia.

Patients using wired channels for drug information spend more on prescriptions, according to latest PharmTrends research

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients who seek advice from health sites on the Internet are more likely than non-seekers to purchase drugs to treat symptomatic illnesses such as depression and insomnia, according to the latest findings from Ipsos PharmTrends(R), a syndicated tracking study of consumer health behavior by Ipsos, the global survey-based marketing research firm.

The latest wave of the ongoing tracking survey-data collected from May through July 2005-shows that consumers who research health information online are more likely to buy ...






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