More than half of the nation’s physicians and other health care providers use electronic health records in their practices,... »

How do you advise your patients about sunscreen? Some fodder for discussion (or possibly more confusion) comes from the... »

Will the SGR ever be fixed? The Policy & Practice Podcast

For the second week in a row, congressional committees took up the exasperating problem of the Medicare Sustainable Growth... »

DENVER – Preprocedural quantification of atrial fibrosis via delayed-enhancement MRI offers a potent means of boosting... »

WASHINGTON – Doctors need to step up their efforts to counsel patients on smoking cessation.

That was the message from... »

DENVER – Biventricular pacing rather than the right ventricular pacing recommended in current guidelines results in... »

ORLANDO – Metformin may be associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according... »

ROME  – Unrecognized heart failure is common among older patients with type 2 diabetes, on the basis of a study of 581... »

PHOENIX – Patients with type 1 diabetes who received high doses of once-daily insulin degludec had fewer episodes of... »

ORLANDO – Both 12- and 24-week regimens of an investigational interferon-free therapy for hepatitis C were associated with... »

Texas reported 844 neuroinvasive disease cases of West Nile virus in 2012, almost 30% of all cases in the United States, the... »

After being fairly stable for 3 years, the number of human cases of West Nile virus jumped almost 700% in 2012, according to... »

SAN DIEGO – Prostate-specific antigen peptidase activity is higher in patients with less-aggressive prostate cancer than in... »

PORTLAND, ORE. – Adequate intravenous hydration is the single most important intervention to prevent renal and other... »

SAN DIEGO – Testosterone replacement therapy is not associated with an increased risk of cancer or prostate cancer in men,... »