The primary care physician (PCP) shortage has attracted a lot of attention recently, and for good reason. Individual Americans are concerned that they will not have timely access to needed medical care, and policy makers are c...

The potential link between a specific form of long-acting insulin, known as insulin glargine and branded as Lantus, and cancer, could be gaining momentum.

Have electronic medical records made a difference in patient care? According to a study looking at digital medical record adoption of 3,000 hospitals, electronic records have made little difference in cost or quality of care. That’s discouraging,...

by David Rind, MD A number of the other blogs that have noted the existence of this blog seem to have “Pharma” in their titles in one way or another, and the implication is not that the blogger likes much about Big Pharma. In the late 1990s, when I...

Originally posted in Insidermedicine The eye is very similar to a camera. Both are optical systems that have lenses in the front to focus light rays onto a film. The retina is the eye’s film. It is a tissue that consists of 10 layers and is about...

Originally published in MedPage Today by Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today Staff Writer For years, the pager and cell phone have summoned on-call radiologists to the emergency room. Now this leap in technology: an iPhone App that lets radiologists...

As both patients and doctors find themselves increasingly on Twitter and Facebook, more are wondering whether they should be talking to one another using social networking outlets. This issue has come up before, most recently when the New England...