Medical meeting exhibitors are struggling to interpret how the recent California Marketing Compliance Law, which regulates pharma companies' promotional activities and gifts to physicians, affects their regional and national meeting activities...

The continuing effort to define meeting planning as a profession and to establish it as an important strategic cog in the corporate wheel was front and center during Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference in...

Some attendees hailed a session called Practical Strategies for Better Outcomes, held at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference in San Francisco in January, as the best session on outcomes they had ever attended...

Despite having to move its meeting from New Orleans to San Francisco after Hurricane Katrina struck last fall, the Alliance for CME drew more than 1,350 attendees to its 31st annual conference, held January 25 to 28. Several attendees said that...

Here's an interesting article about pharma outsourcing clinical trials to India. One quick snip...

Did you know the U.S. Army will pay for continuing education for physician assistants? I didn't until I saw this press release, which says they'll pay for the full 100 hours per year required for certification. I wonder what the CME benefits are...

We recently received a fairly blistering e-mail blasting us for the relatively low response rate to this year's Annual Physician's Survey. Actually, we thought 16.6 percent was pretty good—of course, more would be better...