From PLoS Medicine: a series of articles about disease-mongering. Is this really a nefarious plot to sell more drugs, or meeting a need for today's more preventative-minded physicians and patients?

According to Newsday.com, a psychiatrist in Maryland has been indicted for receiving money from a pharmaceutical company in return for illegally promoting Xyren, a narcolepsy drug, as not being a "date rape" drug (its active ingredient is GHB) and...

This guy sure did make a big career switch after leaving his position as a pharmaceutical veterinary consultant. He now sings, recites poetry, and generally livens up veterinary council meetings.

We'd really like to start running Medical Meetings' "People in the News" section again, but we don't always hear about CME providers and pharmaceutical meeting planners who have landed new positions, received awards and honors, and all that good...

This is Medical Meetings' editor Tamar Hosansky's latest editorial, in which she calls for the formation of a government advocacy task force. I believe she's right, and can't help but wonder if anything is moving forward on this front. ...

After gaining provisional approval for accreditation from the Accredication Council for CME in 2003, CME Outfitters was re-surveyed and has been awarded accreditation with commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education...

From the Alliance for CME...

Some of you may be familiar with Grand Rounds, a weekly roundup of the best of the medical blogosphere (I try to link to it when there's something CME-related in the mix). This post on Blogborigmi, Grand Rounds, brought to you by GlaxoSmithKline...

Thomas Van Hoof, MD, has been appointed associate dean of the Office of Continuing and Community Education at the Health Center at the University of Connecticut, and from this article, he sounds like the right person for the job...

This article on MedPageToday is a pretty good needs assessment for cardiac exam CME...