In the News: 04/03

New Arthritis Drug Breaks The Marketing Mold—It’s Free Abbot Laboratories, makers of the rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira, announced in January that it will provide its recently approved drug free to Medicare patients without drug coverage—at least until the government agrees to pay for it. The move, according to an article by reporter Bruce Japsen in the Chicago Tribune, “is part altruism and part marketing because the company’s drug is competing with a rival—Remicade—that has Medicare coverage.…