Hotels these days are contending with not just a recessionary economy and a wary public, but also some residual hard feelings from planners who long have warned the hospitality industry to play nice — because what goes around, comes around. Here's...

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When TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.'s national account executive Janice Swirski offered Joseph Gerstein, MD, an administrator with Tufts Health Plan, a $40,000 “unrestricted educational grant” to put TAP's drug Lupron on Tufts' formulary — she...

Think of the classic scene from Star Wars in which the robot R2-D2 projects the shimmering holographic image of Princess Leia onto the floor of Luke Skywalker's garage. It is as if she is in the room with him, though only 6 inches tall...

Where market conditions warrant, the synergy of co-locating several regionally based shows — each serving a vertical segment of a market — creates an all-encompassing “front-to-back-end” event...

The article “Grounded!” in the December issue, page 54, listed incorrect information for the TCT 2001 conference Web site. The correct address is www.tctmd.com.

The news last autumn was grim for many medical meetings with a large international component. U.S.-based meeting planners found their overseas attendees and exhibitors dropping out faster than English majors from a high-level chemistry course...

When meeting a physician friend for lunch, Jerry Pettis, public relations advisor for the Los Angeles County Medical Association, noticed the tall stack of medical journals on the doctor's desk. When he asked his friend how he ever got around to...

Three years before the Institute of Medicine issued To Err is Human, its 1999 report on medical errors, the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the American Association for...

Fear of customs hassles may be supplanting fear of flying for many attendees and exhibitors at international events held in the U.S. In the security-obsessed post — September 11 climate, incoming travelers and shipments — especially those from non...