Endocrinology

California has passed a law banning trans fats in restaurants, bakeries, delicatessens, cafeterias, and other businesses classified as “food facilities.”

Researchers around the globe are working on various breath-based technologies to not only diagnose illnesses, but identify the ingestion of drugs of abuse and provide defi nitive medication adherence documentation.

Many of our patients are using the Internet to look up their diagnoses and medications as soon as they get home from our offices.

A year later, as we read and watch the breathless coverage devoted to recent moves by Google, Microsoft, and Apple, we are left asking "is healthcare IT worth the hype?"

I thought I would use my column this month to discuss RevolutionHealth.com. After spending some time surfi ng around the site, I've concluded that it just might be the most over-hyped health information website ever launched. It's an all-around healthcare information portal, with a few interesting features, but there's nothing revolutionary at all.

What is most remarkable about online CME is the fact that, when it comes to the actual nature of the educational materials on offer, nothing has really changed.

Science fiction stories about robots usually fall into one of two categories: "good robots" or "bad robots." In the future, we're told, the machines will either be our obsequious servants, quietly following our orders according to an ingrained code of ethics, or our malevolent adversaries, hell-bent on eradicating humankind.

The Physician Office of the Future: 2020

We profile two innovative mobile dictation and documentation solutions that are sure to keep doctors connected to their office and patients.

MDNG's Editorial Board members examine issues facing physicians today. This month, Drs. Holly Miller and Betty Vandenbosch examine the world of Personal Health Records (PHRs) at the Cleveland Clinic.

To blog or to social network, that is the question. With the growing popularity of online technologies like blogs, vlogs, and video sharing websites, physicians now have numerous ways to collaborate..

Of all the disease states requiring anticoagulation monitoring, atrial fibrillation (AF) may represent the greatest challenge to healthcare providers.

Founded in 1849, Pfizer Inc. is focused on "helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives" through "discovering and developing breakthrough medicines; providing information on prevention ...

MDNG Interviewed Medge Owen, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetric Anesthesia, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, and Founder of Kybele Incorporated, a non-profit ...

The beat on the people, devices, and companies shaping healthcare.

George Mason University Assistant Professor Andrew Carle (http://chhs.gmu.edu/directory/carle.html) coined the term "nana" technology last year as an all-encompassing name for the multibillion...

Not too long ago, the idea that Americans would need to go overseas to have complicated surgeries would have seemed ridiculous.

Since I can remember, I've been playing video games...

Prior to 2004, my exposure to information technology in healthcare had been limited to selling an early version of the Oracle database management system to a few hospitals.

The 23rd annual TEPR Conference & Exhibition took place May 19-23 in the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, TX.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a "leading provider of medicines to fight cancer, cardiovascular and infectious diseases" including HIV/AIDS "and serious mental illness."

MDNG spoke with Neal Goldman, MD, assistant professor, department of otolaryngology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, to learn how he juggles practicing both...

The beat on the people, devices and companies shaping healthcare.

End-stage organ failure is a growing problem in the US, due in part to the fact that the number of available donor organs is lagging far behind the number of people (approximately 96,000...

Whether you're a medical student on the cusp of graduation, a physician who has been practicing medicine for years, or an up-and-coming healthcare information technology (IT) specialist, you...