The University of Minnesota Medical School is weighing a tough ban on gifts to physicians and requiring docs to publicly disclose all relationships with drug companies, according to a University newspaper.

A snap survey of physicians found a yearning for smarter sales reps who know their disease states back and forth and can use clinical studies in their details.

Lilly announced plans to broaden its transparency efforts to include publicly disclosing payments to US physicians as well as grants.

Sequence Medical is launching what it claims to be the first-ever individually customizable medical journal in the US.

According to the results of a new study, about 45,000 US physicians meet via online video with their sales reps, and more than 300,000 have shown interest in interacting with sales or other company representatives online.

Total commercial support of accredited CME scarcely budged in 2007, rising 1% to $1.2 billion, while the share of commercial support going to publishing and education companies declined 4.2% to $594 million, according to the ACCME's annual report.

What impact will the presidential election have on advertising regulation? That's the question that Richard Cooper posed to attendees at the Food and Drug Law Institute's 20th annual Advertising & Promotion Conference in Washington, DC.

Harry and Louise, the stars of the ad that helped sink Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan 14 years ago, are back to beg for government intervention in the nation's healthcare mess.

A physicians' manifesto of sorts, composed by Sermo doctors demanding an end to intrusive insurers and overzealous regulators, has garnered 5,200 signatures in the several weeks since it was posted.

Global pharmaceutical sales will slow in 2008, growing 5%-6% compared to 6%-7% in 2007, as the recent wave of patent expirations continues, according to an IMS Health forecast.