Capsules
Dec 01, 2002
ASSOCIATION NOTES Dentists Get Cancer Ed The American Dental Association has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop and implement a continuing education program to teach dentists oral cancer prevention. The...
SEC TAKES STOCK OF MEDICAL MEETINGS
Dec 01, 2002
Medical professionals aren't the only ones interested in the latest research data presented at medical conferences. There also might be others in attendance with a completely different goal in mind: Getting an edge over the competition in the...
CORRECTIONS NOTED
Dec 01, 2002
In the October issue's cover story, terminal degrees were omitted for two of the quoted individuals: Jacqueline Parochka, EdD, and Karen M. Overstreet, EdD...
FEDS CLAMP DOWN ON PHARMA KICKBACKS
Dec 01, 2002
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...
CONSORTIUM GETS HIP TO HIPPA
Dec 01, 2002
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...
Making Unconventional DEALS
Dec 01, 2002
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...
PEOPLE
Dec 01, 2002
HOTELS, RESORTS, AND CONFERENCE CENTERS ...
Collaborate or Lose Clout
Dec 01, 2002
“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...
Take off the Masks
Dec 01, 2002
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...
IS PHARMA PULLING THE STRINGS?
Dec 01, 2002
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...
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