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Though Wikipedia has become an invaluable source for information of any kind, many have challenged the site due to occasional inaccuracies.

Louise B. Andrew is a fifth-generation physician who has made a career of serving health professionals in distress after her own experience dealing with a medical malpractice suit.

The type of asset protection planning you need depends on where you are in your career.

The rise of social networking websites that encourage patients to rate their physicians and discuss their experiences has some practitioners worried about the damage a malicious review could do to their practice.

What is the most effective way to translate research findings, such as those summarized in the Institute of Medicine report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care and other published studies, into practice- and behavior altering information and interventions?

In 2005, the New Jersey Legislature passed a law requiring the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners (NJBME), "in consultation with the Commission on Higher Education, to prescribe requirements, by regulation, for physician training in cultural competency."

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering a supplemental biologics license application from ImClone Systems Inc requesting that approved uses of Erbitux be expanded to include first-line treatment of recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy.

Does the word "free" grab your attention? It sure gets mine.

The advantages of using wireless body sensors in healthcare are obvious: more autonomy for the patient, an improved quality of life, and better signal quality due to lack of bulky cables.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that �new technology and methodology� it has developed �show that the incidence of HIV in the United States is higher than was previously known.�

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.

Steve Case is on a mission to save healthcare, and he intends to do it by harnessing the consumer-empowering capabilities of the Internet.

The field of cultural healthcare competency is not yet standardized, and many years of research are just beginning to bear fruit and their findings are being codified into official rules.

Why does physician compensation seem to be such a hot-button issue right now? We know that soaring specialist salaries are leading us to an inevitable and potentially damaging shortage of primary care doctors.

The best programs also come equipped with medical dictionaries with thousands of words commonly used in daily practice by physicians and specialists, eliminating the need to build the program's vocabulary from scratch.

In an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures.

Peter S. Moskowitz, MD, Executive Director and Career and Life Coach for medical professionals at the Center for Professional and Personal Renewal, Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, gives advice to physicians on personal and professional growth.

Our economy is in a vulnerable condition. Some believe a recession has been avoided while others believe the worst is yet to come.

For perhaps the first time, a social networking site geared to the young medical student or resident is now just a mouse click away.

Dr. Zankman discusses his involvement in a research project that requires participating physicians to digitally record patient visits for uploading to a national databank.

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Physicians are increasingly becoming required to familiarize themselves with multicultural healthcare via courses on the topic.

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MDNG: Focus on Multicultural Healthcare is pleased to announce Robert C. Like, MD, MS, director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, and professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has joined us as Physician Editor-in-Chief.