The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is pleased to announce that John Jurica, MD and Mark Schaffer, EdM have been named the ACCME's first Chief Accreditation Surveyors...

Non-compliance costs the pharmaceutical industry an average of $150 billion a year. About 20 percent of all prescriptions are never filled. Fifty percent of all prescriptions filled are taken incorrectly. On April 11-12, 2002, a meeting of...

To ensure pediatric health issues are addressed rather than inadvertently overlooked in federal disaster planning, the National Association of Children's Hospitals (NACH) has formed a National Advisory Panel on Terrorism and Children's Hospitals...

Physicians, and the healthcare systems in which they work, could use something like a "watch list" to more efficiently identify medication errors that are likely to lead to injury to elderly patients. This list of drug and laboratory signals could...

Nearly three-quarters of heart patients surveyed in a new University of Michigan study used some kind of alternative medicine approach to help them heal, but dietary supplements chosen by one-third of them could actually interact with their heart...

The American Association Of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) will hold the world's largest annual scientific meeting for neurosurgeons, neurological residents in training, neuroscience nurses, clinical specialists, nurse/physician assistants, and...

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Beginning with the 2003 year, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) will annually establish six National Patient Safety Goals as part of its intensive efforts to reduce errors in health care. CME providers may...

The Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today announced that it has enhanced its free, online hospital statistics tool, HCUPnet, by adding 1998 and 1999 data for the Nation, regions of the country, and selected States, and by...

The Tenth Anniversary Congress on Women's Health will be held at the Crowne Plaza Resort on Hilton Head Island on May 18-21, 2002. The Congress is jointly sponsored by Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine and University of South...