PROTECT FREEDOM OF THE PRESS The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ruled in September that journal publishers could not edit submissions from authors living in countries facing U.S. trade embargoes, because editing...

New Standards Under Fire ...

ON FLORIDA'S EMERALD Coast, the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort has undergone massive upgrades and changes since its acquisition in 1998 by Vancouver, B.C.-based Intrawest Corp. A new 18-hole course, The Raven, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr....

Congratulations to Kenneth Webster, executive director of Osteopathic Medical Societies in Largo, Fla., who was the lucky winner of Medical Meetings' 2003 Merit and Distinction (M&D) Award Ballot raffle. Every year, Medical Meetings asks its...

THIRTY MINUTES NORTH of Albuquerque International Airport and owned by the Santa Ana Pueblo, the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa is an immersion experience in an ancient and proud culture. Visitors can make adobe with their hands, smell fresh...

The sultry, exotic side of Havana is making its way to the Atlantic City Boardwalk in the form of The Quarter at Tropicana Casino And Resort, a $265 million, grand-scale dining, entertainment, retail, and spa complex scheduled to open this fall...

“Just thinking about going to an interactive session makes my hands start to sweat,” says one physician, who prefers to remain anonymous. “I have no idea why, but just the thought gets my heart racing. I'd much prefer to sit in a lecture and...

I really dislike opening up The Wall Street Journal and reading, once again, that the only physician behavior change that results from CME is more prescriptions for the commercial supporter's products. But that's what happened on April 19, when...

A Doctor's House Call ...

For CME providers, the question has moved beyond “Should we do educational outcomes measurement?” We know that we should — and even that we must. Initially, you may be satisfied with self-reported data; increasing numbers of CME providers are now...