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Practice Management - A column about keeping your practice in good health

As more data are exchanged, a survey finds that stakeholders are realizing a return on their investments.

A Consumer Reports survey revealed that 62% of PPO members called their insurer with billing complaints while only 27% of HMO members did.

Congress went on summer recess without voting on a health system reform bill, but that hasn't stopped the debate.

Ethics Forum - A column that answers questions on ethical issues in medical practice

The approach primarily benefits doctors in telemedicine or those who see patients in several states.

Some doctors say the shortage of donor kidneys for transplant pushes desperate patients to break the law.

The board of eight physicians and a veterinarian is charged with deciding if one society's guidelines should be revised.

In just 10 years, a WHO team headed by D. A. Henderson, MD, accomplished the daunting task of eradicating smallpox. A book by Dr. Henderson, now a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Pittsburgh, details those efforts.

Citing "cataclysmic" reductions in federal matching money, the state will reduce doctor pay by about $19 million in fiscal 2010.