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.
Two Caribbean Ritz-Carltons are teaming up to bring incentive or high-end meeting groups a really special double adventure. Groups can experience both the islands of Jamaica and Grand Cayman with a multi-day program based at the 365-room Ritz...
The United States Senate Committee on Finance issued a big wake-up call to the continuing medical education community on April 25 when it released a report saying that some purportedly independent educational programs are, in reality, veiled...
As I Read the op-ed piece “Does a Drug Firm's Free Lunch Influence Doctors?” (Boston Globe, May 18), I thought, how unusual — this writer actually seems to have a positive attitude about pharmaceutical industry/physician relationships. The piece...
The Senate Finance Committee report on CME, combined with extensive media coverage about the inappropriate relationships between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, including The New England Journal of Medicine article “A National Survey of...
In South Florida, Fontaine-bleau Miami Beach is undergoing a massive $1 billion renovation and expansion. It has joined Associated Luxury Hotels International, which will provide national sales services. Its oceanfront suites tower now offers 462...
These are not the Best of times for the pharmaceutical industry. More regulations, increased federal scrutiny, pricing pressures, and a tarnished public image all cloud the present — and future — of the industry. But along with these challenges...
