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By Allison Fero Kaiser Health News One of the groups most affected by the changes in the new health law are medical school students. When ...

By John D. Cacciamani, Jr., MD, MBA President, The Philadelphia County Medical Society With much information swirling about, it may seem onerous to find the ...

Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge so that customers can neutralize the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial ...

A new report from the American Medical Association (AMA) paints a bleak picture of physicians’ experiences with medical liability claims and bolsters the case for ...

It’s official.  Physicians love the iPhone.  In fact, most smartphone-using-docs use the iPhone as their main mobile communication device.  So says a study published by ...

CSC today announced the CSC Meaningful Use Community, the first open and interactive online community for healthcare providers seeking to achieve meaningful use of electronic health ...

In an increasingly electronic and accessible medical world, physicians and patients have more and more channels of communication available to them.  But when it comes ...

The government released new rules on Tuesday that further define “meaningful use” of electronic medical records for physicians and hospitals.  Earlier this year, the Health ...

Medical publisher Elsevier and video game developer Legacy Interactive have just announced the release of Top Doc, an iPhone app that features medical content and ...

As physicians, you are well aware of the problems associated with medical school debt.  Here are some numbers to ponder: Eighty-seven percent of medical students ...