I'm sad to say that Chris Pentz, of the Pentz Group Communications, is not faring well in her fight with bladder cancer, despite her surgery in January. Chris has been an invaluable resource for Medical Meetings, a speaker at our Pharmaceutical...
That's the contention of this editorial in the New York Times. Daniel Carlat, a professor at Tufts Medical School and the editor in chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report, writes that physicians are being paid to bash trazodone, which went off...
According to the Jamaica Observer, 60 percent of Jamaica's doctors didn't renew their licenses. The reason? They didn't complete their CME requirements. From the article...
That's the conclusion of Off-label Prescribing Among Office-based Physicians, published in the May 8 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers " used nationally representative data from the 2001 IMS Health National Disease and...
You no doubt by now have heard about the accusation that Pfizer experimented on children in Nigeria in 1996 to test its experimental antibiotic during a Nigerian meningitis epidemic. John Mack at Pharma Marketing has an interesting take on the...
The Food and Drug Administration has been getting some heat (some examples here and here) over potential conflicts of interest. Today it announced that it was going to review its advisory panel system. From the article...
Anne Taylor-Vaisey has posted the citations and abstracts for Parts 1 to 5 of the Association for Medical Education in Europe Guides that have been published in Medical Teacher, including the outcome-based education articles. Click ...