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Although the adage that there is no privacy on the Internet is truer than ever, there are several steps that physicians can take to protect their private lives and information while still remaining active online.

Women that abuse pain medications are more likely to be motivated to do so by emotional issues and psychological distress, while male-motivation to do so is derived from problematic social and behavioral problems, according to a Harvard study published in The Journal of Pain.

Good news doctors! Although the current Congress is content to fritter away your future income with so-called healthcare reform, a plucky Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada has offered a sensible (and tasty) alternative to the usual fee for service: poultry!

Scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio developed a new class of non-addictive painkillers based on the discovery of a new family of fatty acids.

Featured on ReachMD's site is a podcast titled, "Appropriate Use, Undermedication and Abuse of Opioid Analgesics."

Researchers unveiled a multi-faceted treatment program for young adults addicted to an opioid drug that includes administering Buprenorphine.

A recent 60 Minutes episode addressed the use of stimulants like Ritalin and Adderal by college students to get better grades. Dr. Pullen discusses the episode and the issue.

Brandon Roy of the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA played tonight in game 4 of the Blazers playoff series with the Phoenix Suns. To those of you who are not sports fans, you may say, "So what?" The amazing thing is that Roy had arthroscopic surgery for a torn meniscus eight days ago.

Dr. Pullen discusses the worldwide efforts to eradicate polio, predicting that "polio is a disease of the past before the end of this decade."

Line 'em up and take a count: Mehmet Oz, Nancy Snyderman, Manny Alvarez, Atul Gawande, and Sanjay Gupta (surgeon, surgeon, surgeon, surgeon, and...oh wait, what a surprise...surgeon).

Hay fever, also called allergic rhinitis, is one of the quiet but costly medical problems in the US. It is estimated that the economic burden of allergic rhinitis is estimated to be in the billions of dollars, both in medical costs and in lost time from work.

Dr. Edward Pullen examines the ways in which Earth Day and going green can relate to medicine.

Martial arts fall training may help osteoporosis patients as long as appropriate safety measures are taken, according to study results published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes.

A laser treatment developed by Microlight Corp. of America has successfully treated patients with fibromyalgia, according to a new release on the company's website.

Specifically focusing on afflicted back muscles when training, can help those suffering from back pain experience better results, according to study results published in the Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.

For patients with chronic wounds that won't heal, treatment options just got a little sweeter with Derma Sciences' MEDIHONEY Wound and Burn Dressings.

African American and Hispanic patients with arthritis experience a greater burden from their disease, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

Among male chronic pain sufferers, Black men are more likely to experience depression, affective distress, and disability than white men, according to study results published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.

Acute migraine headache sufferers may find relief from taking 1000 mg of Aspirin alone or in addition to 10 mg of metoclopramide, according to conclusions drawn from a Cochrane Systematic Review.

A graphical tool that tracks down the cause of drug-side-effects is the focus of a study published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (April 2010).

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.

Although there was a 181% increase in the use of e-prescribing across the country from 2008 to 2009, the prohibition on the use of this new technology to prescribe controlled substances (schedule II - schedule V) has been a key barrier holding e-prescribing back from widespread adoption.

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.

There certainly was quite a bit of hype surrounding Apple's February unveiling of the iPad tablet computer. Now that all of the excitement has died down, let's take a look at what the device has to offer for physicians and what that might mean for the tablet market.

A variety of forces are threatening the sustainability of private practice in today's medical environment. In the face of these and other trends, can physicians survive in private practice?

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).

An orally-inhaled migraine therapy known as LEVADEX has entered into a pharmacodynamics (PD) trial. The acute effect of LEVADEX, produced by MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc, will be compared to intravenous dihydroergotamine mesylate (IV DHE) and placebo on pulmonary artery pressure.

Hospitalizations for poisoning by prescription opioids, sedatives and tranquilizers has increased by 65 percent from 1999 to 2006 in the U.S., according to study results published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Electronic medical records (EMRs) have a bad reputation among many physicians for generating progress notes that are so verbose and filled with standard phrases that they are nearly useless to other physicians, and even to the physician who produced the note in the first place.

Adult patients with ADHD may benefit more from meta-cognitive therapy than supportive therapy, researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center report.