Medicine & Business

By Alan Lyndon If your child is sick and needs medical attention, a local pediatrician is better than the corner drug store clinic.  That’s the ...

By Brad Broker It’s interesting to see the spin on certain studies.  For example, researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School conducted a study of ...

A courageous decision by Larry Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark, will take tobacco off the shelves of one of our country’s largest pharmacy ...

PHILADELPHIA – The largest international Alzheimer’s disease genetics collaboration to date has found 11 new genetic areas of interest that contribute to late onset Alzheimer’s ...

By Alvin Tran When it comes to controlling the country’s health care costs, doctors point their fingers at lawyers, insurance companies, drug makers and hospitals. ...

By Jordan Rau Star wars may be coming to a hospital near you. Medicare is considering assigning stars or some other easily understood symbol to ...

By Jeffrey D. Brunken It takes a certain type of person to become a doctor.  In addition to high intellect, they must be driven, ambitious, ...

By Wayne Lipton Physicians today are faced with many options when it comes to decisions related to their practice; from selling it, to adding new ...

By Jenny Gold Kaiser Health News Doctors are required by federal law to provide patients with a copy of their medical notes upon request, but ...

By Tim Soo Health is social. Yet, the thought of a patient tweeting about a health condition or a physician updating his or her status ...