What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has filed a lawsuit accusing Hilton Hotels Corp. of “aiding and abetting” two Hilton executives in illegally obtaining information that would hasten the development and launch of Hilton’s new Denizen ...
The long and winding road to expand the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City is nearing an end. Plans were approved last month to renovate the facility and enlarge it by 100,000 square feet...
In a special communication published in the April 1, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, physician leaders called on professional medical associations to sever most of their ties with drug with and device companies...
In the current landscape of stricter pharmaceutical industry guidelines and intense scrutiny, continuing medical education providers are changing the way they conduct meetings and CME. In the past few weeks, a handful of providers have announced...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education has announced it will not be taking any action to ban commercial support at this time. That decision and other news are outlined in an executive summary of the March 2009 ACCME board of...
Hotels are making unprecedented concessions these days, including no-attrition guarantees. But what if you negotiated your contract before the market turned to the buyer’s favor? If you’re facing attrition now, is it too late to get in on a deal...
A small group of politicians and event industry leaders gathered for a breakfast meeting on the final day of NEMICE, the annual meeting of the New England Chapter of Meeting Professionals International, to discuss how meetings and events can be p...
Exhibit space, exhibitors, attendance, and revenues: Each of these key indicators of the exhibition industry’s health dropped in 2008, resulting in the first overall decline for this market since 2002, according to the Center for Exhibition...
