Article: Drug Sampling Boosts Clarinex Drug Launch; Prescription Samples Key Promotional Tool to Encourage Patient Trial, Ipsos PharmTrends(R) Report Confirms.

UNIONDALE, NY -- The distribution of drug samples to physicians -- which accounts for about half of the pharmaceutical industry's promotional expenditures -- helped new prescription antihistamine Clarinex get into the medicine cabinets of allergy sufferers across the U.S. According to PharmTrends(R) a division of leading market research firm Ipsos-NPD, Clarinex captured a significant share of the prescription antihistamine samples distributed to patients in Q1 of 2002.

Schering-Plough, manufacturer of the Claritin and Clarinex family of prescription antihistamines for allergic rhinitis treatment, leads the category with a net 36% of the total antihistamine ...

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