According to the Hospital Readership Survey 2005, "Medical journals are more important sources of information to doctors than sponsored meetings and company reps." Some results...

A reader of the Boston Globe's Sunday magazine sent this in for yesterday's edition...

From ThingsPharma...

Interesting article in the Boston Globe: Flaws are found in validating medical studies: Many see need to overhaul standards for peer review ...

Here's a great post from Anne Taylor-Vaisey, for those with a little time on their hands...

I had missed this one from Tuesday's New York Times—thanks to a reader for pointing it out to me: Expert Panel Gives Advice That Surprises a Drug Maker. A snip...

Here's your heartwarming story of the day, courtesy of the New York Times (free reg. req'd): Research Scientist Gives $105 Million to N.Y.U.. A snip...

There‘s an interesting editorial in this week's BMJ: (By the way, PHROG indicates basing education on prejudices, hunches, opinions and guesses rather than evidence). Commentary: The challenges of systematic reviews of educational research...

I spoke this morning with someone from a large medical conference who wanted to know if blogs might be a good addition to their meeting marketing mix (here's what a blog is). I've written a few articles about meeting blogs (here, here, and here)...

So, how useful is a clinical learning portfolio, really? This article attempts to find out...