That's what New York physician Leo Shea proposed recently at a Massachusetts town meeting on Lyme, according to to this article from the North Shore Town Online. Lyme is rampant here in Mass., though so far this year the heavy snow cover has...

For Medical Meetings July/August issue, the cover story will be about evidence-based CME. There has been an increasing reliance on the value of evidence-based medicine as the gold standard for physician and other healthcare worker education. But...

There's an interesting interview with Billy Tauzin, president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, in today's Boston Globe. A snip: ...

Oh, this is just too funny: From the Vail Times: Thromboembolectomy. A quick snip...

Say it ain't so! MedGadget reports that the American Medical Association will no longer be letting the public view its online newsletter, AM News, for free; it will only be available free to AMA members (more on the new policy here) . A snip from...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The June issue of Medical Education is now online.

A Capsules reader wrote me this morning with a request that is way outside my area of expertise, so I thought I'd turn it over to the Capsules' brain trust--you folks. She wrote...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the June 2005 issue of Heart: ...

If you are a medical science liaison, want to become one, or just want to learn more about them, have I got a good Web site for you: MSL-IQ, the new home of the MSL Institute. It's run by Jane Chin, PhD, who until I read her bio I had no idea...

Sorry to keep harping on the issue of mandatory cultural competency CME, but this whole area has me fascinated. Thanks to a reader, here are some ideas on how New Zealand is thinking about handling the implementation of its Health Practitioners...