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.
Leading clinicians, healthcare executives, technology thought leaders and vendors are expected to gather at the Emerging Technologies & Healthcare Innovations Congress 2002 (ETHIC 2002), June 19-21, 2002, at the Hilton Washington & Towers...
National leaders in medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and business will explore the implications of integrating medicine and food production to benefit consumer health at a national "Foods for Health" conference in Minneapolis May 19-21, 2002...
Recognizing the need for standardized, reliable and valid instruments to measure the outcomes of musculoskeletal care, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), in conjunction with a number of orthopaedic specialty societies, created a...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is pleased to announce that John Jurica, MD and Mark Schaffer, EdM have been named the ACCME's first Chief Accreditation Surveyors...
Non-compliance costs the pharmaceutical industry an average of $150 billion a year. About 20 percent of all prescriptions are never filled. Fifty percent of all prescriptions filled are taken incorrectly. On April 11-12, 2002, a meeting of...
To ensure pediatric health issues are addressed rather than inadvertently overlooked in federal disaster planning, the National Association of Children's Hospitals (NACH) has formed a National Advisory Panel on Terrorism and Children's Hospitals...
Physicians, and the healthcare systems in which they work, could use something like a "watch list" to more efficiently identify medication errors that are likely to lead to injury to elderly patients. This list of drug and laboratory signals could...
Nearly three-quarters of heart patients surveyed in a new University of Michigan study used some kind of alternative medicine approach to help them heal, but dietary supplements chosen by one-third of them could actually interact with their heart...
The American Association Of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) will hold the world's largest annual scientific meeting for neurosurgeons, neurological residents in training, neuroscience nurses, clinical specialists, nurse/physician assistants, and...
