The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) 2002 Annual Conference and Exhibition on October 6--9, 2002, at the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC, will feature more than 100 sessions dealing with key healthcare regulatory issues...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) have announced the first recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Awards. For the 2002 year, winners were selected in...

The Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education will hold CACHE 2002: Integrating Theory into Practice, September 27-29, 2002, at The Westin Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario. The meeting is recommended for anyone involved in or interested in...

Medsn, a Los Angeles-based healthcare marketing and education solutions provider, has announced the launch of its Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) course catalog. Click here to see the catalog.) ...

MEDNET 2002 is an international meeting aimed at bringing together researchers, developers and users involved in the application of the internet in medicine, starting either with a medical or technological background. It is organised by the SIM ...

With the baby boom generation closing in on old age, every health care professional should be trained in treating the elderly, contend three nursing professors writing in the current edition of the journal Health Affairs...

In December 2000, the Chair of ACCME, Thomas Kirksey MD, assigned a Task Force of Council Members to study the issues of content validation and eligibility for accreditation as part of the accreditation system. In November 2001, the Task Force...

Career Education Corporation (CEC) has announced it has acquired Missouri College, located in St. Louis, for approximately $6.1 million in cash. The acquisition expands CEC's core curricular programs into the allied health fields...

In a unique academic and business partnership, UCLA, Computer Motion, Inc., Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. and BERCHTOLD Corporation, announce the opening of a new robotic and technology center at UCLA. One of the first of its kind in the...

StarCite continues to build on its platform of e-products and services for the meetings industry, with the purchase of Cardinal Communication's RegWeb, an online attendee registration system. While StarCite end users will not be immediately...