What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
The eagerly awaited (by me, anyway) ACCME 2005 Annual Report Data is available online (pdf). I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, and am very curious about the most recent data. Depending on who I talk with, commercial support has either...
The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association named Cynthia Holloway, Director, Corporate Communications, Tyco Healthcare, of Mansfield, Mass., as its 2006-2007 president during the HCEA 2006 Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale in June...
You've probably heard about the flap in JAMA over an article it published on the use of antidepressants in pregnant women, where many of the researchers had ties to antidepressant makers. Today I ran across this editorial, which says the...
With so many foreign-born physicians working in the U.S. these days, it's not unusual for patients to have a hard time understanding what their doctor is saying. Check out this story from the Baltimore Sun about how some people are trying to...
According to this press release, the Blue Shield of California Foundation is investing $355,450 to provide free access to its doemstic violence online training program for two years to California physicians. It's also good for up to 16 credits...
According to a letter sent to Alliance for CME members, Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, Executive Director of the Alliance, is leaving his position at the conclusion of the 2007 Annual Conference in Phoenix. Harry A. Gallis, MD, President, Alliance for...
That's the gist of this article from MedAdNews. Through social networking tools like blogs, people are already talking about healthcare issues, but the pharmaceutical industry's voice is curiously absent from the conversation. I agree...
Check out these groovy drug ads from Spain in the 1960s and 1970s. They were a lot more colorful back then, or so it seems.