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.
In June, Canada will host the first-ever Epidemiology Congress. It will be the first in North America to be jointly sponsored by four major epidemiology organizations: the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Society for...
The inaugural meeting of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) will take place in Paris (France) August 29th to September 1st 2001 at the Palais des Congrès. This will be also the second transatlantic meeting, after the success of...
iPhysicianNet announced today it has reached an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to provide electronic video detailing services to primary care physicians throughout the United States. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed...
A new report from CenterWatch, a Boston-based newsletter covering the clinical trials industry, predicts that by 2005 there will not be enough clinical investigators to handle the growing number of drugs in clinical trials. Published in the April...
Medscape, a provider of digital health records (DHR) and online health information, has announced that 23-year ABC-TV veteran Daniel Barnathan has been named Executive Vice President of Portal Sales. Barnathan brings extensive knowledge and...
Even though obesity is second only to smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., 57 percent of overweight people have never had a discussion about weight with their doctors, according to a new Roper Starch survey that examined...
Spirituality and healing are rapidly becoming integrated into mainstream American medicine, according to Herbert Benson, MD, president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His conclusion is based on...
For its ninth annual meeting, to be held in Washington, D.C. June 2-5, the Conference on Women’s Health and Gender-Based Medicine is introducing a new wrinkle. On the fourth and final day of the conference, attendees will be able to participate in...
Orion Healthcare Technology, Inc. (Omaha, Neb.)has launched CEU2000.com, a new website where health care professionals can obtain unlimited continuing education credits online for only $39.95 per year...
