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.
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Braido F, Popov T, Ansotegui IJ, Gayraud J, Nekam KL, Delgado JL et al. Continuing Medical Education: an international reality. Allergy 2005; 60(6):739-742...
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine scored a $362,000 grant from the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Grant Program to develop activities to help both physicians and consumers make...
There's an interesting article in the Boston Phoenix by David Bernstein that examines the relationship between physicians and their organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, research, and how that research is disseminated. One snip...
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This is an issue in which we are all interested ... Open Access to the literature. Have a look at this article from the April 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
That's the question asked by this article in Wired. It covers not just pharmaceuticals, but also all the technologies and assorted products aimed at helping us all get a better night's rest. A snip...
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Does blinding during the peer review process decrease bias? Ross JS, Gross CP, Desai MM, Hong Y, Grant AO, Daniels SR, Hachinski VC, Gibbons RJ, Gardner TJ, Krumholz HM. Effect of blinded peer review on...
There's an interesting editorial in the New York Times about how The Business Roundtable, comprised of reps from 160 large companies, wants "Medicare to release data on payments to individual physicians to help them determine which doctors...
According to the Journal News, the South Orangetown Ambulance Corps' being named as this year's best EMS agency in the Hudson Valley is due in part to its dedication to continuing medical education. From the article...
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Podichetty VK, Booher J, Whitfield M, Biscup RS. Assessment of Internet use and effects among healthcare professionals: a cross sectional survey. Postgrad Med J 2006 Apr;82(966):274-9...