I had missed this one from Tuesday's New York Times—thanks to a reader for pointing it out to me: Expert Panel Gives Advice That Surprises a Drug Maker. A snip...
Here's your heartwarming story of the day, courtesy of the New York Times (free reg. req'd): Research Scientist Gives $105 Million to N.Y.U.. A snip...
There‘s an interesting editorial in this week's BMJ: (By the way, PHROG indicates basing education on prejudices, hunches, opinions and guesses rather than evidence).
Commentary: The challenges of systematic reviews of educational research...
I spoke this morning with someone from a large medical conference who wanted to know if blogs might be a good addition to their meeting marketing mix (here's what a blog is). I've written a few articles about meeting blogs (here, here, and here)...
Congratulations to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics
in the US, Africa, Central America, and Asia, on receiving two-year provisional accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Education.
I loved this article about physicians who got so sick of devices that didn't function well that they created their own—and got artistic enough about it that their work is landing in galleries as well as ERs.
Sure, we all like to talk about the new trend toward transparency in the corporate world, but when a company messes up, the old watch-your-back, cover-your-tush, and shift-the-blame-to-someone-else mindset tends to kick in. The bigger the mistake...