According to BBC News, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has updated its code of practice to limit gifts to physicians, from eliminating promotional competitions and quizzes to limiting air travel for sponsored delegates at...
Finally, after years of talking about it, The Professional Meeting Planners Network is designing a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners. Here's some of the writeup I did about it for our December issue (which...
While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This article on workplace learning and CME was published in last Thursday‘s BMJ. It is part of a series entitled ABC of Health Informatics, which will be published as a book by Blackwell Publishing in...
The seemingly incessant reports about the pharmaceutical industry are starting to hurt their bottom lines, according to this article in the New York Times...
So, is this a conflict of interest that's resolved? The FDA's deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs, Scott Gottlieb, will not take part in some aspects of the Bush Administration's bird flu planning "because his past consulting...