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.
There's an interesting article in the December 1 edition of JAMA entitled, Postmarketing Surveillance: Lack of Vigilance, Lack of Trust (subscription). From the intro: ...
This item on Ethical Corporation is interesting, if not surprising: When comparing surveys on pharma executive ethics, 65 percent of the senior execs surveyed believed they and their colleagues "adhere to ethical business practices"--and this...
I've never been to the American College of Cardiology annual meeting, but I cracked up when I saw it described like this in an editorial in The Motley Fool on the Stent wars between Johnson and Johnson and Boston Scientific...
Physician blogger DB makes some good points in this post about pay for performance--namely, that it can hurt overall patient health by discouraging docs from taking on the sickest patients. Instead, he proposes that ...