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There's a posting at Musings of a Dinosaur that's deserving of a comment or two. Mine is that the whole thing could've been avoided with ePrescribing.

I've spent my share of anxious hours waiting for trouble after a threat from a patient. It is usually a drug-seeker.

MediDome, designed by a British student, is used for subcutaneous or intramuscular injection, senses the presence of blood and halts the injection.

Baseball hall-of-famer Jim Palmer is in his third season as spokesman for Strike Out High Cholesterol, a national cholesterol education program.

There are few professions in North America where people are expected to work non-stop, with mandatory overtime, in physically demanding positions. Yet, that's what nursing is.

Obstetrics hospitalist programs are popping up everywhere these days, and having an OB hospitalist on call can help ensure that patients are receive the proper care.

The UT Southwestern Medical Center has genetically engineered a laboratory mouse, named the PANIC-ATTAC mouse, that can regenerate pancreatic beta cells after these cells have been induced to die.

A little poking around on the Internets confirmed that quite a few good-to-very-good blogs run by cardiologists have gone dark in the last year or so.

The age-old expression advises against putting all your eggs in one basket. If you're looking for a job, you don't respond to just one ad, you answer several because you don't know which job will be the one to come through.

Hospitalists are more than 20,000 strong and continue to show a bull market trend. They have brought great changes in the in-patient care.

Not all tax breaks are created equally. Due to the complexities and nuances of the continually evolving tax code, certain credits and deductions save you significantly more in taxes than others.

In 2000, Guadalupe Benitez, after receiving fertility drugs for 11 months at the only clinic to provide infertility treatment under her insurance plan, was denied insemination.

You fell in love with the big behemoth on the dealer's lot, but now soaring gasoline prices have cooled the affair. There are still 24 months to go on the lease, though, and getting out of it can cost you big bucks. A better idea is lease assumptionâ€"that's legalese for trading your leaseâ€"and there are several web sites that can help you.

A stop-loss order is a useful investing tool that's lost some of its usefulness. Basically, a stop-loss order tells your stockbroker to sell a stock when the price falls to a pre-set level. It still works well in most situations, but it generally only works when the New York Stock Exchange is open

The core value of Zyked is that it makes existing exercising activities more fun.

Music can be used as an alternative therapy for patients with cancer, pain, and especially neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, epilepsy, and autism.

The incubation time for brain tumors related to cell phone exposure is 10 years. Many millions of people have been using cell phones for 10 years or longer.

Back in 2001, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act triggered a gradual increase in the dollar threshold of estates subject to the estate tax.

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

More and more studies are being conducted to test whether cell phones can be a helpful resource in reminding patients to take medications and perform tasks for chronic conditions.

Susie just got her acceptance letter to a big-name university and now you're trying to figure out how to pay for it and whether you could possibly qualify for financial aid. Tip: the key strategies to maximize financial aid eligibility are to reduce assets or income or both.

The US has a $2 trillion dollar healthcare nut. That's a pretty good piece of change for an industry that does nothing to provide medical care.

Go Red for Women, in a study released recently, rated the best and least "Heart-Friendly" cities for women in the United States.

According to a report by researchers at the CDC, up to 28% of toddlers haven't received vaccinations according to US guidelines.

Investors with a low tolerance for volatility and risk have been pouring money into safer havens, mostly money market funds. Assets held by money funds have rocketed into the stratosphere to $3.5 trillion, a 45% jump in just the past year.

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.

The price of oil is skyrocketing and so is the price of gas at the pumps. The price hikes may cost in lives.