Take Out the Trade Names If you think your conference attendees aren't as concerned as you are about commercial influence creeping into meeting content, think again. Dr. Eduardo Bruera, chairman, department of symptom control and palliative care...
From the photos in your brochures to the contracts you have with speakers, copyright laws come into play in just about every phase of the event planning process. Here are a half dozen key copyright concerns...
Portable, yet comprehensive. That's what MM's panel of editors liked about the winner of our third annual Top Guides Contest. The on-site program for the American Diabetes Association, in a convenient 4.5 by 9-inch format, has several standout...
More physicians obtain CME by attending meetings than by any other means, according to preliminary figures from Medical Meetings' eighth annual survey of physician preferences in CME (to be published in the January/February 2001 issue). Physicians...
Groundbreaking news about hotels and other meeting facilities NEW AND IMPROVED Wyndham has rebranded Baltimore's largest hotel, the Omni Inner Harbor, as the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor. The 707-room downtown hotel will undergo a $6 million...
Health Care News and Ideas for Medical Conference Organizers * INDUSTRY NOTES A biotech startup will team up with Merck to educate physicians about HIV drug-resistance testing. ViroLogic Inc. and Merck & Co. Inc. will jointly develop and...
Under a media spotlight, the CME community is issuing new rules to govern relations between pharmaceutical companies, educators, and physicians...
PLANSOFT IS NOW MPOINT, WITH NEW MEETING PRODUCT PlanSoft's completely redesigned meeting planning Web site has a new address: www.mpoint.com. The updated site is one of a host of products from Cleveland, Ohio - based PlanSoft Corp. that are in ...