The Society for Neuroscience is breaking attendance records in San Diego this week, according to a press release. We're talking 31,000 attendees and more than 60,000 room nights here. My husband is at the show, and he said last night that the...
Did Cephalon cross the off-label line in promoting its narcolepsy drug Provigil? That's the focus of this article from Business Week Online, which mentions that J&J and Genentech also are under the microscope for potential violations. And, as...
Remember that cholesterol panel flap I blogged about a while back? This article in the Kalamazoo Gazette is another recent examination of the convoluted relationship between top physicians, pharma, and CME, among other things, using this one issue...
According to this article from AMNews, and as we reported in Medical Meetings last spring, all the new rules and regs are cutting the sales reps out of the CME loop for many companies. The AMNews article says: ...
Christopher Perez of CME Outfitters, LLC, who used to work with Medical Meetings' publisher Primedia at its Interactive Medical Networks division, recently e-mailed me about some of the things his med-ed company is doing. One innovative thing they...
...not much yet, since only 12 people have voted. Still, in answer to the question, "How will the new Standards for Commercial Support and its guidance documents affect pharma commercial support for CME," 10 of the 12 think it'll cause support to...