While Murray Kopelow, MD, chief executive of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, declined to answer specific questions about his announcement in an article recently published in The New York Times that ACCME would “make...

The third time may be the charm for some things, but not for the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, whose report on commercial support was yet again sent back to the drawing board after a third request that AMA...

One of the largest medical meetings in the country has selected Las Vegas as the site of its 2012 annual conference, with officials citing the economy as a critical factor in the decision. It will be the first time the Healthcare Information and...

While of course no one's talking on record, my colleague Rachel Eccles managed to dig up some information about the potential impact of the Pfizer-Wyeth merger on its meetings and medical meetings department. ...

Pfizer completed its $67 billion acquisition of one-time-competitor Wyeth Pharmaceuticals on October 15, just one in a string of recent mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry. (Think Merck’s November 3 merger with Schering-Plough...

Symbolic of its own recent survey results, the International Congress and Convention Association welcomed nearly 1,000 attendees—a record-setting number—to its annual conference in Florence, Italy, which wrapped up last week...

Everyone’s doing something right: Hotel guest satisfaction in Europe has reached a five-year high.

Education, networking, and an evening reception all are targeted to association executives.

Meeting planners should get to know the U.S. Electronic System for Travel Authorization program, says Helen Marano, director, tourism industries at the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism in Washington. ESTA requires that all international travelers...

How do young professionals view meetings and exhibitions, and what can meeting professionals do to attract them? Those were the central questions explored in a study by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, called “The Power of Exhibitions...