A doctor says when methotrexate is given to childhood leukemia patients its cure rate is 90 percent or better. But a shortage of the drug has patients and their families worried. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar is among those pressuring pharmaceutical companies to increase the supply.

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of surgeon Jon Norberg, who is accused of drugging his wife with the powerful anesthetic propofol, the drug that featured prominently in the death of pop singer Michael Jackson. Norberg is accused sexually assaulting his wife Alonna Norberg, alos a doctor, while she was sedated.

Students at the University of Minnesota tell the Star Tribune that the use of legal and illegal prescription drugs has become common on campus, and a new study says one in four adults fake symptoms to get drugs, news that has some doctors calling for tougher screening tests.

Currently some patients take abortion-inducing drugs in the presence of a nurse, while on a videoconference with a doctor. In his veto message, Governor Dayton endorsed such telemedicine as safe and inexpensive.

In part three in a series investigating drug company's financial relationships with health care practitioners, the Pioneer Press looks into the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic, two big organizations that are getting a growing share of industry money. Both organizations use the money for research and training, and both have processes in place to root out possible conflicts of interest.