New Hampshire is scheduled to vote today on a state measure that would crack down on the practice of collecting and selling individual physician's prescription data to pharmaceutical companies for use by sales reps, according to this article in...

If you ever find yourself nostalgic for the good old days, check out John Mackenzie's experience as the world's first full-time, medical color TV director during the 1950's. He says he worked at about 27 medical society meetings while televising...

From the Accreditation Council for CME...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Knowledge retention and improved patient outcomes are pretty much the purpose of continuing education, aren't they? This study just published in the May issue of the American Journal of Surgery reports...

This is one story that just isn't quitting: Now BusinessWeek is talking about "disease mongering." Here's a snip...

Some Australian oncologists are asking physicians who give rosy presentations on some pricey cancer drugs to come clean about their connections to pharma, according to The Age. Here's a snip...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This article was just published in Cyberpsychology & behavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society. (How's that for a title?) The December 2005 issue...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the May 2006 issue of Headache: Patwardhan MB, Samsa GP, Lipton RB, Matchar DB. Changing physician knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about migraine: evaluation of a new educational intervention...

Physicians in Scotland are being wooed—but this time, the wooer isn't big pharma. It's big milk, as in formula milk companies who are providing all kinds of goodies in hopes the docs will recommend nursing mothers to choose formula. From The...