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.
Peter Gleason, MD, found himself in handcuffs recently for promoting an off-label use of a drug, according to this article in the New York Times. He is charged with promoting Xyrem, a narcolepsy drug from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, for depression and...
I have to brag about this one: Scott Raymond, our art director, won the Gold in the ASBPE Nationals for the Medical Meetings March/April 2005 cover, "Don't Panic," which was about the ACCME's updated Standards for Commercial Support. I think th...
Roche pharmaceuticals has been accused of violating Australia's pharmaceutical code of conduct by taking 200 docs out to swanky dinners that cost up to $200 a head (see story here. A snip...
I love this Mouse Party educational tool from the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah about how various types of drugs affect the brain. I hadn't seen anything quite like it before, and it made me want to go through and learn...
While I appreciate the sentiments expressed in this editorial, I'm just itching to write a letter to the editor explaining just how commercial support and CME really works. This is how Dr. Steele thinks it does...
The eagerly awaited (by me, anyway) ACCME 2005 Annual Report Data is available online (pdf). I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, and am very curious about the most recent data. Depending on who I talk with, commercial support has either...
The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association named Cynthia Holloway, Director, Corporate Communications, Tyco Healthcare, of Mansfield, Mass., as its 2006-2007 president during the HCEA 2006 Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale in June...
You've probably heard about the flap in JAMA over an article it published on the use of antidepressants in pregnant women, where many of the researchers had ties to antidepressant makers. Today I ran across this editorial, which says the...
