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All physicians understand that learning is a lifelong activity. Whether we are interested in fulfilling our professional CME requirements, or learning about new things that simply enrich our lives, opportunities to become more educated and knowledgeable have never been easier to find and access. This broad availability of educational resources is, in large part, due to widespread access to personal computers and the Internet.

Andre Elisseef of IBM's Zurich Research Lab explains how IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME) enables physicians to visualize patient records using three-dimensional representations of the human body.

The best programs also come equipped with medical dictionaries with thousands of words commonly used in daily practice by physicians and specialists, eliminating the need to build the program's vocabulary from scratch.

E-detailing is currently being piloted, or is at least under consideration, by many pharmaceutical companies as a way to maximize sales force time, cut costs, and increase interaction with physicians.

What is most remarkable about online CME is the fact that, when it comes to the actual nature of the educational materials on offer, nothing has really changed.

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, artifi cial intelligence and molecular electronics scientist, National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba, Japan, talks about the "Nano-brain," a brain neuron-inspired, microscopic computer made up of 17 duroquinone molecules sitting in a ring pattern on a gold surface. The assembly has the potential to perform more than 4.3 billion commands at once, and could have far-reaching implications for medicine.

A federal review of insulin pump use by adolescents over a period of 10 years found that 13 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries were connected with the pumps.

Among the pregnant women researched in a recent study on diabetes, 2,784 had either type 1 or type 2 diabetes before getting pregnant.

It's now clear that, regardless of the outcome of this year's Presidential contest, taxes on your income and savings will increase substantially over the next few years.

As of this writing (late February 2008), the presidential campaign is in full swing. Although Senator John McCain has virtually wrapped up his quest to become the Republican Party nominee, Democratic Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still struggling to win their party's nomination.

When speculating about what my practice might look like 20 years from now, I of course immediately imagined a healthcare utopia untainted by health insurance companies and medical malpractice lawyers.

Nanomedicine researchers from UCLA and Northwestern University have teamed up to develop nanoscale polymer thin films that provide efficient localized drug delivery to ‘cloak' implants, rendering them invisible to the body's immune system.

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation that is placing more responsibility and decision-making in the hands of patients. In this new healthcare world, physicians need tools that improve the...

Groups of researchers are working on a big fix for the Internet. But some want to replace it entirely. If you think it doesn't make sense, think again. It could reshape the way the healthcare industry conducts its e-business.

What does the future hold for healthcare? To find out, we spoke with E-futurist Douglas Goldstein. Set aside your visions of crystal balls and tarot cards; he's not that kind of futurist.

Science fiction stories about robots usually fall into one of two categories: "good robots" or "bad robots." In the future, we're told, the machines will either be our obsequious servants, quietly following our orders according to an ingrained code of ethics, or our malevolent adversaries, hell-bent on eradicating humankind.

The Physician Office of the Future: 2020

What's in the pipeline as far as new technologies for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline? We investigate...

We profile two innovative mobile dictation and documentation solutions that are sure to keep doctors connected to their office and patients.

A video game that combats cancer via a virtual immune system? It may not be an instant cure, but ask young cancer patients what form of chemotherapy best "treats" their disease...

We talk to Dr. Kenneth R. Harman, Chief, Health Services Division, US Coast Guard Air Station, Cape Cod, MA; flight surgeon for Coast Guard District I, which extends from the Maine-Canada border to NJ

MDNG's Editorial Board members examine issues facing physicians today. This month, Drs. Holly Miller and Betty Vandenbosch examine the world of Personal Health Records (PHRs) at the Cleveland Clinic.

I'm a sports guy. I was not the most gifted athlete in high school, but nevertheless, I can talk sports and compete in a pick-up game of almost anything and hold my own.

Ten years ago, the first consumer health site, WebMD (www.webmd.com), was launched.

It appears that advocates of tort reform seeking to limit lawsuits and cap negligence awards have lost the battle in Congress, with no sign of substantive change on the political horizon.

Lately, we've been bombarded with dire warnings about hackers, viruses, spyware, adware, and a host of other threats to our computers...

To blog or to social network, that is the question. With the growing popularity of online technologies like blogs, vlogs, and video sharing websites, physicians now have numerous ways to collaborate..

Of all the disease states requiring anticoagulation monitoring, atrial fibrillation (AF) may represent the greatest challenge to healthcare providers.

Founded in 1849, Pfizer Inc. is focused on "helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives" through "discovering and developing breakthrough medicines; providing information on prevention ...

MDNG Interviewed Medge Owen, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetric Anesthesia, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, and Founder of Kybele Incorporated, a non-profit ...