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The specific structure of an asset protection plan must involve a consideration of the details particular to your situation. A plan that works well for one person may be completely wrong for another. For example, the income tax and estate tax benefits of a plan must be efficiently tuned based on your age, income, accumulated wealth, and your family dynamics. The types of assets that you own can also make a big difference in the planning.

One of the largest and most costly problems facing the healthcare industry is that patients don�t consistently take the medicine they�ve been prescribed. More accurately, between one-third and one-half of patients in the US do not take their medications as instructed, according to an August 2009 report released by the New England Healthcare Institute (http://bit.ly/xlZaW).

Modern medicine's technological advances now allow more people to live long enough to develop chronic diseases where the mortality is low but the morbidity high. Hyperchondriacs are acutely aware of this, and perceive great threats in their aging and the future. Hyperchondriacs have similar attributes to hypochondrial patients even as they lack the attendant "symptoms" of a physiologic illness.

Google has just completed a major overhaul of Google Docs that includes redesigned spreadsheet, document, and drawing editors; group chat functionality; and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up.

A nice surprise buried somewhere in the healthcare reform bill is that, starting next year, Medicare patients will be able to get annual preventative care exams that are paid for by their health insurance.

Several new studies from the Medical College of Georgia examine the role that a sedentary lifestyle and being overweight can have on a child's health.

As adolescent diabetics get older, the level of parental involvement in their lives decreases, resulting in increasingly poorer adherence to treatment regimens.

The highly coveted iPad was released last weekend, and those who were fortunate enough to acquire the new gadget have been quick to discuss what kind of impact it will have on just about any industry. But what kind of impact will the iPad have on healthcare?

Exposure to these common chemical classes in young girls may disrupt the timing of pubertal development, and put girls at risk for health complications later in life.

Early this morning, President Obama announced that there is no actual need for healthcare reform, and apologized for "making such a big deal about it before."

Raloxifene could become a new treatment option for post-menopausal women with schizophrenia.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pamela Hartzband, MD, and Jerome Groopman, MD, explore the changes, good and bad, that the Internet has brought to the practice of medicine.

Individuals across the country are either rejoicing, cursing, or anxious over the historic passing of healthcare reform legislation and for physicians and legal experts alike the question remains: What will these changes mean for the practice of medicine and patients' rights?

Study results published in the American Journal of Infection Control found that Twitter is often used to spread misleading or false information about key healthcare topics, with incorrect information from a single tweet able to reach hundreds of thousands of patients.

Exercise alone does not seem to be effective in preventing weight gain once a woman is already heavy. The latest issue of JAMA reports on a huge study trying to see if different levels of exercise prevent weight gain in women.

People with diabetes who undergo cancer surgery are more likely to die in the month following their operations than those without diabetes, but researchers don't know why.

Researchers hope this new discovery will facilitate the development of less rigid disease management options for patients with type 1 diabetes.

HCPLive interviewed Ron Wince, president and CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions about the healthcare reform bill.

We met cute. Classic Hollywood. America caught a glimpse of healthcare reform about a year ago--but only in passing, a little flirtatious hair-toss. Couldn't really see anything, veiled and shadowy, but God did she look great.

I have stayed away from saying much about the health care reform debate so far, but based on the healthcare reform plan passed yesterday, I'd have to say, "Gosh, that doesn't look too bad."

If you've read my first three blogs you've gleaned that I complain a lot, and I think I do it fairly well... LOL. But this last week was a pretty good one, from my perspective anyway.

Sunday evening, the House of Representatives voted 219 to 212 to approve the Senate version of the health reform bill. Lost in all the hoopla surrounding backroom wheeling and dealing and arcane parliamentary procedures has been the response from the physician community, which has been decidedly mixed.

The healthcare sector will see an increase of 4 million jobs by 2018. Unfortunately, we'll continue to see shortages on the doctor's side, meaning that to take advantage of growth, doctors will need to cultivate a strong supporting cast. Here's how to do it.

Simple approach overcomes difficulties of previous tests in measuring serum fructose levels. Developers urge further testing to establish guidelines for safe consumption of fructose.

A new website provides data on how healthy-or unhealthy-every county is.

The boom of social networking should make it easier for physicians and patients to communicate with one another. But reimbursement, liability, and privacy concerns are getting in the way. How can these obstacles be overcome? Read on.

Check out these suggestions on how to maximize battery life and up-time and other tips and tricks to help you get maximum performance from your iPhone.

A recent study found that the mortality rate of patients with mild to moderate hypoglycemia, a condition previously considered clinically unimportant, was twice as high as those who did not have the condition.

In a phase II study, eprotirome was shown to be both safe and effective in lowering cholesterol without classic thyroid risks, however it is not known whether this lowering of cholesterol will ultimately protect patients from heart disease.

Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 – about 1/4 of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly.