I manage the education for an association that has 180 courses, 35 symposia presentations, 510 paper presentations, more than 500 poster exhibits, and 80 scientific exhibits. As you can imagine, this adds up to thousands of authors, presenters...

I just spoke with Jim Sliwa, media relations manager with ICAAC organizer the American Society for Microbiology, and the conference will be moving from New Orleans to a new place and new dates. ...

Go read Patti Digh's latest 37 Days. She so beautifully sums up what I'm feeling right now, and I suspect many of you are, too, about the horror show that used to be one of the more beautiful places in the U.S.: The Gulf Coast...

Jena McGregor on the FC Now blog asks an interesting question: Where are the cruise ships in the Gulf Coast disaster? She says...

And the one I'm working on now is one of them—contacting meeting organizers to find out what they're doing with their close-in events in the Gulf Coast. With so much death and destruction, with floodwaters still rising in New Orleans, it almost...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey...

Phew, The Industry Veteran on the Health Care Blog has quite a few choice words about the recent Vioxx verdict. Here's a small sampling, but go read the whole post (and the comments)...

Here's one I've never thought about before—From the Wisconsin State Journal: Tissue bank criticized for offer of trip to coroners ...

Area medical staff change how they do business with drug companies. While CME is still allowed...