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.
According to this article in The Australian, Medicines Australia is considering loosening its Code of Ethics, which sounds similar to the PhRMA Code. From the article...
I'm just now finally getting around to writing up something about the "Navigating the CME Landscape to Improve Patient Care: Pleasures, Pain, Perils, and Pitfalls of Commercial Support" session from last January's Alliance for CME annual...
Online social networking is gaining traction, whether via simple listservs, Linkedin groups, or more complex systems like IntroNetworks. For example, there are the Alliance for CME's listservs, and CafePharma, for pharmaceutical sales reps. ...
This article in the Boston Globe is a perfect example of why we need to teach docs how to treat patients—in the non-clinical sense of the word. Human dignity cannot be tossed out the window just because someone's sick in the hospital.
From the Wall St. Journal (free for seven days): As Universities Get Billions in Grants, Some See Abuses: Cornell Doctor Blows Whistle Over Use of Federal Funds, Alleging Phantom Studies. From the article...
