The almost 50,000 medical students who belong to the American Medical Student Association are being urged to join in on a national campaign called The Amnesty Campaign. The idea is to collect everything that pharma has doled out to them from pens...

War and corruption has a lot to do with why the Iraqi healthcare system is in such rough shape right now, but so does a systemic lack of medical education, according to USA Today. ...

According to a report on eurekalert.org, "Physicians appear to be performing surveillance colonoscopies at frequencies higher than those recommended by evidence-based medical guidelines, according to results of a survey conducted by the National...

The Stark II law, which just went into effect a few weeks ago, has to be one of the most frustrating documents I ve dealt with in a while. Sponsored by U.S. Congress Representative Pete Stark, the revisions focus on many aspects of Medicare...

It s interesting to see two items related to this show up in one day (see below). In this one, the International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics take issue with the recently revised cholesterol-lowering guidelines, saying they will "result in...

A while back, Medical Meetings posed what I think is an interesting question: Are CME providers being used by the pharmaceutical industry to legitimize a treatment for conditions that aren't really diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome? At...

Beginning in September, primary care practitioners will be able to earn CME credit on primary care topics for free at Pri-Med s Web site. ...

As CMI pointed out recently, the trend toward companies using preferred vendors is alive and well. To prove the point, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has officially joined the preferred hotels crowd. According to the BTN article: "Major...

St. Jude Medical, a global cardiovascular device company, had a problem it had to distribute educational documents to its 1,000 field personnel within 60 days to meet specific regulatory requirements. So they took to the Web, using the IntraLearn...

The 11th annual National Health Information Awards Program proved to be a big boost for the medical education Web site VirtualProstate.com, a site developed by Rockpointe Corporation that serves as a resource for doctors to learn more about...