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.
After the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery expressing concern over the new Standards for Commercial Support and their guidance documents, ACCME earlier this week met with officials at ASCRS. As part of the discussion, Laura...
According to this article, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill that requires pharmaceutical companies that do business in Calif. to adhere to the OIG Guidance and PhRMA Code. ...
The Society for Neuroscience is breaking attendance records in San Diego this week, according to a press release. We're talking 31,000 attendees and more than 60,000 room nights here. My husband is at the show, and he said last night that the...
Did Cephalon cross the off-label line in promoting its narcolepsy drug Provigil? That's the focus of this article from Business Week Online, which mentions that J&J and Genentech also are under the microscope for potential violations. And, as...
Remember that cholesterol panel flap I blogged about a while back? This article in the Kalamazoo Gazette is another recent examination of the convoluted relationship between top physicians, pharma, and CME, among other things, using this one issue...
