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.
CME providers agonize over eliminating the possible perception of bias in their activities due to pharmaceutical industry support, but are docs similarly concerned — and if so, are they concerned enough to pay their own way? For the first time...
I Recently Attended the American Heart Association annual meeting in Dallas. It was an impressive event — more than 27,000 attendees took over most of the city for five full days. The exhibit hall was inspirational, with pharmaceutical companies...
According to a press release, the Cosmetic Boot Camp, which focuses on cosmetic dermatology, is restricting registration to physicians who are board certified or board eligible in a relevant specialty. That's seems pretty unusual to me. They also...
Despite journal editors' efforts to crack down on ill-doings and conflicts of interest in the studies they publish, the Wall Street Journal reports that malfeasance is still rampant. One clip from the article (subscription req'd)...
According to this Wall Street Journal article (subscription req'd), resolving author conflicts by disclosing them in a correction after the fact ain't going to cut it anymore. From the article...
