Onclive Team

Doug Farrago, MD, is a full-time practicing physician in Auburn, ME, and the founder of the Placebo Journal (www.placebojournal.com), which is meant to â��empower physicians with a skill that is sorely lacking â�" humor.â��

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, artifi cial intelligence and molecular electronics scientist, National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba, Japan, talks about the "Nano-brain," a brain neuron-inspired, microscopic computer made up of 17 duroquinone molecules sitting in a ring pattern on a gold surface. The assembly has the potential to perform more than 4.3 billion commands at once, and could have far-reaching implications for medicine.

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 programs vocabulary from scratch.

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.

Despite improvements in screening that result in detecting this colorectal cancer in earlier stages, the disease remains the second leading cause of cancer death in men and the third in women.

The recent FDA approval for Avastin has sparked discussion about the approval of pharmaceuticals that may improve quality of life but do not necessarily extend life.

According to Internet World Stats, access to the Internet varies greatly based on geographic location, in one estimate (December 2007) ranging from as high as 71% of the population of North America to less than 5% in Africa.

In the coming months, you will probably hear and read a lot about personal health records, as two technology heavyweights roll out initiatives designed to spur the mass consumerization of health information. The race between Google and Microsoft to apply the resources of the Internet to personalized healthcare might be great for consumers, but how will physicians benefit, if at all?

With the field of PHRs now significantly expanding to include providers, payers, employers, and information technology industry giants, such as Microsoft and Google, public awareness and attitudes regarding PHRs have changed.

Modern medicine has adopted technology and pushed the boundaries of science in impressive ways.

An improved mammography system currently in clinical trials at Emory Universitys Breast Imaging Center in Atlanta is showing dramatic improvements in both early detection of suspicious lesions and reductions in false-positive readings.

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

The Physician Office of the Future: 2020

Groups of researchers are working on a big fix for the Internet. But some want to replace it entirely. If you think it doesn't make sense, think again. It could reshape the way the healthcare industry conducts its e-business.

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation that is placing more responsibility and decision-making in the hands of patients. In this new healthcare world, physicians need tools that improve the...

Here in the Northeast, March is a month of anticipated change. After the short, cold, and dark days of February, March means still having some daylight left as we leave the office, the occasional spring tease of a mild day, and often the first signs of spring growth on the trees.

When speculating about what my practice might look like 20 years from now, I of course immediately imagined a healthcare utopia untainted by health insurance companies and medical malpractice lawyers.

Nanomedicine researchers from UCLA and Northwestern University have teamed up to develop nanoscale polymer thin films that provide efficient localized drug delivery to cloak implants, rendering them invisible to the bodys immune system.

Science fiction stories about robots usually fall into one of two categories: good robots or bad robots. In the future, we are 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.

...with Dr. Robert Kolodner. Before becoming interim National Coordinator, Dr. Kolodner was the chief health informatics officer of the Veterans Health Administration.

We profile InTouch Technologies' Remote Presence (RP) robotic system, a modern-day "Rosie" from the Jetsons...is it for you?

What's in the pipeline as far as new technologies for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline? We investigate...

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

We talk to Dr. Kenneth R. Harman, Chief, Health Services Division, US Coast Guard Air Station, Cape Cod, MA; flight surgeon for Coast Guard District I, which extends from the Maine-Canada border to NJ

Whether you're looking to walk the walk, talk the talk, or just learn a little bit about Texas Hold 'em poker, this month's Downtime will surely get you started. Shuffle up and deal!

You're an MD. You dig tech. You dig HDTV and want to get a new tube, but you already deal with enough complex terms in your practice, so you just don't have the time to deal with 3,000 more...

With this new portable media player, physicians and administrators can both capture and access patient files and records with a few clicks, and view, listen, and record content with ease.

Steven Zuckerman, MD, aka "The Amazing Dr. Z," is a solo-practice neurologist and amateur magician in Baton Rogue, LA. We spoke with Steve to learn how he maintains his medical practice -- and magic!

We talk ethics with Joel Frader, MD, MA, Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Whether you're looking for the best all-in-one television/Internet/gaming PC, or simply a program that provides optimal photographic images, there is a product out there for you.