When one of her pharma clients was launching a new injectable drug to help stimulate white blood cells to fight infection in chemotherapy patients, Clare O'Boyle, director of entertainment, United States, for Jack Morton Worldwide, New York, chose...
The Permanente Medical Group of the Kaiser Permanente health plan organization, which operates in nine states and Washington, D.C., recently updated its conflict-of-interest policy for its more than 5,000 Northern California physicians to make it...
CME IS ON THE FEDERAL radar screen once again. This time the U.S. Senate is investigating pharma companies' educational grants, including funding for CME. In June, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Montana) sent letters to...
The American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., did something a little different this year with its eight-year-old Annual Clinical Focus educational initiative — it was done entirely through video-streaming on the Web. In previous years...