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A survey conducted by the Society for Women’s Health Research found that of the 2,028 people surveyed, 94% of them said their doctor has never discussed medical research.

Pamela B. Morris, MD, Director, Preventive Cardiology, Co-Director, Women's Heart Care, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses cardiovascular disease in women.

The maverick doctor opens up about why his original practice wasn't sustainable, the inadequacy of physician quality ratings, and why his new corporate venture isn't so out of character.

Victor Kim, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, discusses chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk factors, and current research and developments in the treatments of COPD.

With the recent stock market turmoil, many people are concerned about the safety of their investments and their fi nancial advisors' performance. Whether your primary planning goal is to assert more control over your assets, maximize current returns, or build future fi nancial security, it is important to know the key issues on which to focus. Even if you don't want to actively manage your own finances, you should be able to answer the following questions so you can understand whether your investment advisor is on the right track.

The advent of managed care in the late 1960s was probably the last major "innovation" in healthcare delivery.

Concerns about online PHRs are overblown given that Americans have become avid users of Internet-based financial services.

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.

There is an increasing number of options available these days for physicians who are interested in becoming more technology savvy.

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.

Doug Farrago, MD, is a full-time practicing physician in Auburn, ME, and the founder of the Placebo Journal (www.placebojournal.com), which is meant to "empower physicians with a skill that is sorely lacking â€" humor."

The maverick doctor opens up about why his original practice wasn't sustainable, the inadequacy of physician quality ratings, and why his new corporate venture isn't so out of character.

In an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures.

Peter S. Moskowitz, MD, Executive Director and Career and Life Coach for medical professionals at the Center for Professional and Personal Renewal, Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, gives advice to physicians on personal and professional growth.

Everyone loves the word "free," but when it comes to your computer, you have to be careful. Some of the free stuff out there can bog down your system and do more harm than good.

Bill Crounse, MD, Senior Director for Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation, discusses patients and their increasing use of the internet for health information.

Our economy is in a vulnerable condition. Some believe a recession has been avoided while others believe the worst is yet to come.

The following is a video compilation summarizing the latest medical breakthroughs from the American College of Cardiology - 57th Annual Scientific Session.

High blood pressure is linked to fewer headaches, due in large part to having stiffer artery walls, which affects a homeostatic process that regulates blood pressure and decreases sensitivity to pain.

There is growing concern about an emerging shortage of physicians nationwide. New physicians, particularly those who train in the state, are an important source of New York doctors.

Modern medicine has adopted technology and pushed the boundaries of science in impressive ways.

Medal.org is an ongoing effort to create software implementations of useful healthcare algorithms, include documentation and references, and make both easily available to all interested. It saves people from going to numerous textbooks that they in all likelihood would not refer to as often as they should.

Allowing your patients to manage some aspects of their medical records seems like it could save your practice valuable time spent re-keying information scribbled onto forms, let alone some cold hard cash. But there are definite drawbacks and kinks that have yet to be worked out.

I believe the positives of e-mail far outweigh the negatives, for too many reasons to list.

An industry's preferred answer to the "build vs. buy" question can reveal much about its mindset and priorities.

In the coming months, you will probably hear and read a lot about personal health records, as two technology heavyweights roll out initiatives designed to spur the mass consumerization of health information. The race between Google and Microsoft to apply the resources of the Internet to personalized healthcare might be great for consumers, but how will physicians benefit, if at all?