That's how one doctor describes a kiosk that dispenses generics in his office, according to this article. Well, it's an interesting way to get generics samples into docs hands, anyway.

From BMC Central: A hierarchy of effective teaching and learning to acquire competence in evidenced-based medicine...

This is the best healthcare news I've heard in a while: Reversing Trend, Big Drop Is Seen in Breast Cancer (link is to the New York Times, but this news is everywhere). From the article...

From Health Care Renewal: GSK Funds Talks About Screening Pregnant Women for Herpes. A snip...

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: A new issue of JCEHP has just been published and indexed in MEDLINE. Link to this issue and to the latest issues of five other medical education journals here

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Last week I wrote about the series of 16 articles published in Health Research Policy and Systems on improving the use of evidence in guideline development. The last articles in the series have been published and you can...

Nearly 8 million people are tuning into a surgical webcast site out of Hartford, Conn., according to this article. While doctors are using the site to get CME, more and more patients also are tuning in...

This article from the Washington Post details the recent guilty plea from Pearson "Trey" Sunderland III, who was chief of the Geriatric Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. From the article...

Marriott International is changing the rules about how commissions are paid to independent meeting planners and other group intermediaries. After January 1, 2007, contracts for meetings convening after June 1, 2007, will include a clause that says...

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The reaction the recent BMJ study about physicians using Google as a diagnostic tool has been lively, to say the least. You can read about some of the reaction here.