IF THE RATIFICATION of the Accreditation Council for CME's new Standards for Commercial Support proceeds on schedule, you should be prepared to begin to implement your new conflict of interest (COI) process in October 2004 with the deadline for...

Can you imagine getting a memo from your hospital s compliance officer telling you that you can t provide more than $300 per year of CME to a physician that refers Medicare/Medicaid patients to your organization, and that you have to have the...

[Communication company s] services provide pharmaceutical companies cost effective access to physicians, augmenting their existing sales and marketing activities. Additionally, [Communications company] enables physicians to conveniently learn...

Move over pharma: Now that so many foods are making health claims, is it any surprise that organizations like the California Walnut Commission are getting into the healthcare education game? (Walnuts are supposed to contain Omega-3 fatty acids and...

Even though the pharma giant s spokespeople keep insisting that it had already disseminated all its clinical trial data at meetings and other means including negative data GlaxoSmithKline PLC still "agreed Thursday to release negative data on the...

While the difficulty in getting foreign physicians into the U.S. for meetings continues to be a problem, there s at least some some good fallout from this policy. ...

The American Cancer Society is beta-testing a new PDA-based educational tool called C-Tools 2.0. ...