Investigators are now starting to fine physicians for having relationships with medical device firms that constitute a conflict of interest, according to this NYT article: Possible Conflicts for Doctors Are Seen on Medical Devices. With the costs...

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Pri-Med Research's National Physician CME Insight Study has found that primary care physicians are increasingly turning to a variety of channels for continuing education. It says that now the typical primary care physician in the United States...

I just received another great response to a reader's request for information on how to get people to attend her fee-based activities when so many free resources are available. I'm printing it here with his permission...

A study done by researchers from the University of California, Davis, of 124 surgeons has found a need for more standardized palliative care for patients. From the press release...

Some interesting stuff in the latest issue of WentzMiller and Associates' WM&A Global CME e-newsletter. First up...

This article from MedPage Today has a good run-down of some of the scrambling medical association meetings that were scheduled for New Orleans are having to do post-Katrina.

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This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: There are some interesting items in the August issue of the American Journal of Medicine...

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