Direct marketing agency Wunderman has acquired Designkitchen, a digital and interactive agency in Chicago.

ID Media has launched M.O.R.E., a local direct marketing system.

In a scathing rebuke to its assessment of conflicts of interest in CME, a trio of accrediting agencies said the Macy Foundation's assertions "reflect concerns that we, as CE accreditors, had 5-10 years ago."

Coalition for Healthcare Communications responds to IMS vs. Vermont with amicus brief.

CBS Evening News and BusinessWeek collaborated on a series titled "Doctors under the influence?," looking at whether speaking and consulting fees paid by pharmas to docs bias their decision-making.

A group of 12 publishers, including Elsevier, the American Society of Neuroradiology, JAMA and the Nature Publishing Group, have elected to use new plagiarism detection software called CrossCheck.

Merion Publications' ADVANCE Newsmagazines has launched a new ADVANCE for Healthcare Careers website.

Oakstone Publishing has been acquired by private equity firm Boston Ventures.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AARC) has appointed Diane Scott-Lichter as publisher and head of its scientific publishing division.

The number of new industry-sponsored clinical trial starts went up 12% to a record high in 2007, according to data released by Parexel International Corp.