First there was the whole Vioxx and Celebrex thing. And now there's a new twist on an old drug: The FDA is doing a pilot study on the use of Ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine), better known for showing up in dance clubs than hospices, to help...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The 2005 CACHE/ACEMC conference will be held in Calgary, September 24-26. The theme of the meeting is: CHE from Knowledge to Systems to Sustainable Outcomes ...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the December 2004 issue of Medical Education: ...
The Indian Medical Association has issued physician gifts guidelines that sound a lot like the U.S.'s: ...
MedBiquitous has started up something called MELD, a community of practice for online healthcare education. ...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This article from BMC Medical Research Methodology may be of interest to those of you who are involved in questionnaire design. Free full text is available. ...
I love that quote from an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer an alert reader (thanks, Debra!) sent me today. "Even after PhRMA passed new guidelines saying that free meals to doctors should be "modest," former HUP physician David Grande found in...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here's some light reading from the November 2004 issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing: ...
Looks like it's true: Michael Moore is sniffing around drugs this time. From an article in The Detroit news: ...