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.
Johns Hopkins has joined with many leading professional medical societies to create the MedBiquitous Consortium, a group dedicated to creating technology standards and software for education and collaboration in online medical communities...
Myriad Genetics, Inc., has provided an unrestricted educational grant to the American Medical Association that was used to prepare and distribute up to 75,000 physician education modules on hereditary colon cancer, entitled, ``Identifying and...
A seriously ill cardiac patient in Tampa, FL, will participate in his daughter's wedding in Darien, IL, a suburb of Chicago, on June 2, via videoconferencing...
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) will present a check for more than $30,000 to the Suicide Prevention Center, part of the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center in Culver City, California. The presentation will occur during...
"Take to the battlefield and fight for the best medical, psychological and social support for ovarian cancer patients," was the call-to-action issued to oncology nurses yesterday at a symposium entitled "Therapeutic Advances & Advocacy in...
Asthma is a significant, chronic problem in the elderly, and is associated with higher prevalence of allergic sensitivity to indoor allergens than previously thought according to investigators. The report is published in this month's Annals of...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released The Clinical Guide for the Care of Women with HIV, believed to be the first manual specifically written for the medical treatment of women with HIV. The manual provides practical...
The Ziment Group, a US-based pharmaceutical market research agency, has announced that it has been acquired by WPP on behalf of WPP's Information and Consultancy group, Kantar...
Robert I. Grossman, MD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Radiology at NYU School of Medicine and Director of Radiology at NYU Hospitals Center. He also will hold the Lewis Marx Professorship...
Many children who have asthma aren't using helpful medications or speaking regularly with health care providers about their symptoms, according to a study from the University of Rochester's Children's Hospital at Strong. The findings were...
