Union contracts expired at 62 hotels in San Francisco on August 14, at 37 hotels in Chicago on August 31 at midnight, and are scheduled for renewal at a number of Los Angeles hotels in November. When contracts expired in 2004 in San Francisco...

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A tornado that struck downtown Minneapolis August 19 caused an estimated $350,000 to $500,000 worth of damage to the Minneapolis Convention Center, according to Meet Minneapolis, the city’s convention and visitors association. Repairs to the...

The early bird 25 percent-off rates for the Second European CME Forum are ending on Aug. 31, so if you're interested in what's going on internationally with continuing medical education, check out the program here. It's going to be held in London...

Just caught a link to this NYT article on CME Linkages and thought, boy do these docs need CME: Disparities: Study Finds Risk in Off-Label Prescribing. Basically, the study said that the docs surveyed only knew the correct status of about half the...

American Medical Association President J. James Rohack, MD, has launched a blog called On the Road with Dr. Rohack. According to a press release, the idea is to "chronicle his thoughts on health care in America, discuss the leading issues...

Google just launched PLoS Currents: Influenza. The site is designed to allow researchers to share the latest research on influenza. From the Google blog: ...

On September 15, the U.S. Travel Association will announce the results of an Oxford Economics study that focuses on the return on investment of all types of business travel...

Someone e-mailed me recently with a really good question: What medical conference models are doing well financially in today’s regulatory and economic climate? ...