The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued its draft compliance program for pharmaceutical manufacturers on September 30, just three months after the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...

The 87 academic health centers that comprise the University HealthSystem Consortium recently signed on with HealthStream (www.healthstream.com) to learn what they need to do to be compliant with the Healthcare Insurance Portability and...

Price per gross square foot, indemnification clauses, force majeure cancellation policies, the cost of bringing in live animals for medical testing, T1 lines … is there anything in a convention center meetings deal that is not negotiable? Not much...

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“We must build common ground, work in a collaborative and cross-functional manner, and create the right mind-set and behaviors to bring about change,” said Fred Hassan, president and CEO of Pharmacia Corp. during his keynote speech at the 13th...

I woke to the sound of the flag flapping at half-mast outside my window at the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel on September 11, still unsure about how I felt being at the American Medical Association's 13th Annual Conference of the National...

Dear Editor: The long-term value of admiring T.S. Eliot as a poet and Henry James as a novelist should never be underestimated. The delicious sense of irony such intellectual affectation bequeaths makes reading an article such as “Is Pharma...

Every five years the CME office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School holds a strategic planning retreat. At the most recent one, held in 2000, George Mejicano, MD, assistant dean, CME, asked the group, “What are we doing well and...

As a guest at the spacious 665-room Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in central Pennsylvania this spring, I experienced a couple of the “signature” body treatments at the 235-room Hotel Hershey's elegant European-style spa. The two hotels are...

Applying technology to the challenges drug firms face when organizing visiting faculty programs, McGettigan Partners (www.mcgettigan.com) has launched the Physician Services Program. It allows corporate execs to manage the logistics of dinner...