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HappyWakeUp is able to perform a variety of recordings throughout the night, all without interfering with one's sleep.

There are many hospice and palliative care centers who are without a palliative care consultant or do not have the money to pay "out of hours cover."

Much has been learned about characteristic sex differences in knee structure and function, but researchers still know little about the underlying causes of the differences or whether they reflect an increased injury risk for physically active women versus men, according to a new consensus statement on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries from the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA).

The T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a mobile Web experience that includes the popular Google products that millions have enjoyed on the desktop.

The development of effective affordable vaccines.

The AMA launched the "Heal the Claims Process" to dramatically reduce the unnecessary administrative burden of ensuring accurate insurance payments for physician services.

A 2005 study from Scandinavia reported that radical prostatectomy improved cancer survival when compared to watchful waiting after 8 years.

How can we not get frustrated when we work at helping our patients get healthy, only to see them throw it all down the drain?

Cell phone use is particularly detrimental in children, such as the recent Swedish study that found an increase in health complaints among adolescents with wireless phones.

Not all cancer is hereditary, but because cancer always in some way or another changes the genetic makeup of a cell, cancer itself is genetic.

Although Health 2.0 resources offer tremendous opportunities to patients and physicians, they also provide some great risks for healthcare providers.

New research indicates that many older patients who survive colorectal cancer do not receive guideline-recommended follow-up with office visits, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) testing, and colonoscopy.

Healthcare professionals are recommended by the American College of Physicians to consider drug treatment for patients at risk for bone fractures due to osteoporosis or low bone density.

A few weeks after California found the ban on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional, the State's Supreme Court found itself in a legal battle over gay rights.

Detroit boasts the highest rate of PAD among its population of any US city, making it the number-one PAD "Hot Spot" in the country.

Health Data Management issued a report this month stating that an increasing number of hospitals have resorted to paying physicians to participate in health IT meetings.

The first global survey of cancer survival finds very wide variations across five continents.

Prostate-specific antigen velocity has been associated with increasing prostate cancer-specific mortality.

It takes a gutsy person to sign up for a plenary session with that title. From the moment she took the podium, Grace Anne Dorney Koppel captivated a small audience with her moving story of her struggle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and its many co-morbidities. With steely resolve, she challenged the physicians in the audience to step up their efforts to diagnose and treat a disease that currently affects more than 24 million Americans.

Although CBT offered via group therapy provides benefits over individual therapy, such therapy isn't available to everyone.

Though Wikipedia has become an invaluable source for information of any kind, many have challenged the site due to occasional inaccuracies.

Google's Street Views technology is now available on many mobile phones, letting you see a picture of the address you're attempting to navigate to.

Endocrinology is not known for being very heavy on anything "tech", aside from insulin pumps and CGMS (continuous glucose monitoring sensor) devices.

The popularity of cell phones is the definition of a double-edged sword. They can be source of safety, and can be a source of frustration.

The FDA's new system for quarterly reporting of potential drug safety issues to the public is now available

Efforts are under way to bring patients resources to help avoid medication errors.

New York residents now have the option of getting flu and pneumonia shots from their pharmacists.

For help responding to patient inquiries about MRSA, the CDC has launched a major new information campaign to help protect against these infections.

There is a significant impact on hospitalist practice, as more and more in-patients are being treated by hospitalists- not only internal medicine in-patients, but also patients belonging to medical sub-specialties including cardiology and nephrology.

It's heartening to see attention in mainstream media being given to video games that get kids moving.