he 38th Annual Meeting of the Drug Information Association opened yesterday in Chicago, and will run through June 20 at the Lakeside Center at McCormick Place. Attendance was expected to exceed 6,000. The scope of the Annual Meeting continues to...

I.C. Axon, a Montreal-based provider of on-line learning software to the healthcare industry, today launched the LearningCampaign, continuing its innovative leadership in sales force training solutions...

Bristol-Myers Squibb, the $20 billion (sales) pharmaceutical giant, has put itself up for sale, according to a news report from Reuters. Itself a product of the 1989 merger of Bristol-Myers and Squibb Corporation, the company is said to be...

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Medsite, a web-based pharmaceutical sales and marketing company, today announced the commencement of free, interactive, online continuing medical education programs to address catastrophic agents of bioterrorism...

M2 Communications, a developer of medical education programs for the healthcare industry, has announced that Joyce Pei, Pharm.D., M.B.A., has joined the firm as Vice President Medical Affairs and Operations. Pei will be responsible for leading the...

The Fourth Annual Kaiser Permanente Hospital Medicine Conference will take place September 12 and 13 at the Paradise Point Resort & Spa, San Diego, Calif. This is a conference for physicians working in the Permanente hospital system in...

Can there be such a thing as too much press coverage of research presented at a medical conference? Apparently so. Press coverage of scientific meetings may be characterized as "too much, too soon," according to an article appearing in the June 5...

A new journal series, "Quality Grand Rounds," will harness the power of individual case presentations to educate health care providers about medical errors. The first article in a series of eight appears in the June 4, 2002 issue of the Annals of...