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Designing a New Tool for Chronic Pain Management

How Roche is using the latest technologies to develop pharmaceuticals and devices.

An increasing number of study results is uncovering differences among ethnic population groups in the metabolism, effectiveness, and side effect profiles of many important drugs.

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.

What program is used, who is expected to take adavantage of NePSI, and how the system is superior to other products.

Designing a New Toll for Chronic Paint Management

As healthcare costs continue to soar out of control, the push to contain costs by tying physician reimbursement to patient outcomes ... is gaining momentum.

It is the fastest growing crime across the country. It affects everybody. There is little you can do to prevent it, and you can't detect it until it's too late.

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

Daryl A. Rosenbaum, MD, assistant professor and director of the sports medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

We talk w/ 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

Our regularly appearing "Covering Your Assets" column with Robert Mintz. This month, Robert tackles the ins and outs of professional corporations and whether they make sense for MDs.

In this month's "Tech Talk," Dr. B offers advice on how to back up the valuable information you have sitting on your computer. It's not as complicated or as cost-prohibitive as you think.

Whether you're looking to walk the walk, talk the talk, or just learn a little bit about Texas Hold 'em poker, this month's Downtime will surely get you started. Shuffle up and deal!

You're an MD. You dig tech. You dig HDTV and want to get a new tube, but you already deal with enough complex terms in your practice, so you just don't have the time to deal with 3,000 more...

With this new portable media player, physicians and administrators can both capture and access patient files and records with a few clicks, and view, listen, and record content with ease.

Steven Zuckerman, MD, aka "The Amazing Dr. Z," is a solo-practice neurologist and amateur magician in Baton Rogue, LA. We spoke with Steve to learn how he maintains his medical practice -- and magic!

We talk ethics with Joel Frader, MD, MA, Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Whether you're looking for the best all-in-one television/Internet/gaming PC, or simply a program that provides optimal photographic images, there is a product out there for you.

New technologies and new expectations are combining to change the ways patients view their relationships with healthcare providers. Traditional roles are being skewed, and we examine further.

The world famous medical pioneer Dr. Michael DeBakey passed away late Friday night. He was responsible for pioneering the now-common procedure bypass surgery.

According to the American Heart Association, in any given year, an estimated 5,800,000 adults age 20 years and older have a stroke (1 person every 40 seconds).

As if anyone needed another reason to hate traffic, new evidence shows that it can up kids’ risk of allergies. (Traffic should then also be blamed for the amount of money that is spent in the US annually on allergies).

A considerable body of literature has been created that addresses healthcare disparities from social, cultural, economic, and other causes.

Racial and ethnic disparities in primary health care are in part systemic in nature, and the lower resources flowing to physicians treating more minority patients are a contributing factor.

Clutter-phobia may be programmed into certain people’s genes, since extreme cleanliness likely used to imply success in warding off germs and illness.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced a new $100 million initiative to help solve major health crises.

Struggling against rising costs and a payment system that rewards procedure-based specialist care over spending time talking to patients and basic preventive medicine, family physicians and internists increasingly have had to squeeze in more patients for less pay…