I wonder if this will start to become more common: According to this article in the New York Times today, Eric J. Topol, the chief academic officer of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, who has had consulting and financial ties with numerous drug...
In my editorial for the January/February issue of Medical Meetings, written just days after the tsunami hit Asia, my mind was on disaster preparedness for our healthcare workers. While we still have a way to go, it's good to see that CME providers...
Unbeknowst to me, Anne Taylor-Vaisey also was at the CME Congress 2004 in Toronto (I wish I'd known her then--we could have had a blast!). From a message she sent to her Yahoo Group, she also was blown away by Karen Mann's presentation. I only was...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here are four astracts of articles from the January 2004 issue of Family Medicine. Free full text is available here (don't we love that?). Here is the list of issues: ...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: ...
Boy, I no sooner got off the phone with MM's editor Tamar Hosansky about which of the gazillions of great-sounding sessions to go to next week at the Alliance for CME conference in San Francisco when I got a notice that the Alliance is already...
I'm so excited that I just have to share our good news with you--we just found out that Medical Meetings is a finalist for a Neal Award for Best News Coverage for an article I wrote last fall called Stark Raving Mad. ...
While it's a little off the beaten track for most Capsules readers, I'm hoping you or someone you know might be interested in a position a recruiter just e-mailed me about: ...
I was so pleased to receive this guest posting this morning from Stuart Henochowicz, M.D., who has his own blog (well worth checking out--burkemed.blogspot.com). Here are some of his thoughts on serving as faculty: ...
According to a story on KGBT 4-TV, eight of the nine physicians involved in developing cholesterol guidelines for the public had financial ties to the companies whose drugs the guidelines recommend. ...