Medicine & Business

By Jenny Gold Accountable Care Organizations have given little attention to surgery in the early years of the Medicare program, choosing to focus instead on managing ...

By Sarah Varney It is perhaps the biggest men’s health craze since Rogaine or Viagra: so-called low testosterone clinics, which have rapidly grown in cities and ...

By Avner Gal Type 2 diabetes currently afflicts more than 371 million people worldwide, according to the International Diabetes Federation, and the number of people ...

By Richard Knox Authors of the first-ever global hep-C guidelines went big Tuesday, advocating for worldwide use of two of the most expensive specialty drugs in the ...

By Brad Broker Last Friday was Match Day and it was a great year for those medical students being placed into their residency programs of ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin Doctors groups fear their members won’t get paid because of an unusual 90-day grace period for government-subsidized health plans and are urging ...

By Brad Broker Generic versions of emergency contraceptive drug Plan B One Step can now be sold over the counter – without restrictions – to women ...

By Alan Lyndon Pediatricians and family docs should be aware that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has updated the Periodicity Schedule for child well-visits.  The ...

By Lisa Johnson The morning buzzer goes off, but you’re just not ready to face a day at work. You text your boss that you’re ...

Most physicians know that ICD-10 is coming soon.  Implementation date for hospitals and medical practices is October 1, 2014.  Why is this important?  Well, the ...