From this review in the New York Times, Atlus Software‘s Trauma Center: Second Opinion, played on the new Wii gaming system, sounds incredibly hard. I wonder if it actually does any good as a surgical simulation, or if it's just a game?

Here's an interesting article in the Boston Globe about the American Society of Hypetension rejecting a panel discussion on conflicts of interest. The CME committee decided that, with the invited panelists being notable critics of the current...

I don't subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, but this article looks interesting from the teaser: Medical Journal Spikes Article On Industry Ties Of Kidney Group...

From the Accreditation Council for CME...

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is an article by a former boss of mine, Dr. Richard Reznick of the University of Toronto. Published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The title is Teaching surgical skills: changes in the wind.

If you have an opinion about the charge that periodically comes up that pharma is looking to "invent" diseases for which it has the cure (think hair loss, ED, restless leg syndrome), check out this podcast from our friends at the Pharma Marketing...

Here we go again: Drug Files Show Maker Promoted Unapproved Use (from the New York Times).

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...