The once warm relationship of physicians and pharmaceutical reps bearing samples and sandwiches is getting colder, although many prescribers may wish it were otherwise. The percentage of physicians ...

The employees of drug manufacturers who try to persuade doctors to prescribe their products are salesmen, even though they don't actually sell anything, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled ...

Is the benefit to your medical group of maintaining ongoing relationships with pharma reps worth the cost? That’s a question confronting thousands of hospitals and medical groups today. Many factors ...

Doctors can and often do prescribe medications for different purposes than what the FDA has approved them for. But drug companies face tight restrictions on communicating with physicians about these ...

We have often written about our irritation with prescription drug ads on television. Like many of you, we hate the idea that powerful pharmaceuticals with the potential to do great harm if used ...

UPDATE: GSK denies it is remotely monitoring its sales reps' laptops. See comment below. Some GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) drug sales reps are freaking out over their employer's move to install Fiberlink 360 ...

Pharmaceutical representatives are salesmen, even though they don’t actually sell anything, according to a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reported in the Arizona Daily Star. The ...