Lifestyle

This week is national save for retirement week, and there's some good news. While more and more people are planning to push off retirement past the traditional age of 65, it turns out that is to their benefit.

The newest smartwatch to hit the market has the potential to become an effective tool for health trackers and drive out other available physical activity trackers.

October, with the government shutdown and near miss on the debt default, was a great teaching experience for behavioral investing. So don't let fear or greed guide your decisions.

To stay a private practice in this environment, physicians must view their practices as business and evaluate their bottom line. Yet, only half of small practices are using EHR.

If a luxury item is by definition something you can do without, by targeting so-called "Cadillac" insurance plans to help pay for the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration is making it clear that it's more concerned with limiting healthcare choices than it is with ensuring Americans have access to high-quality insurance.

While travel insurance is meant to ease the minds of people taking vacation, a close inspection of the policy you're buying is necessary - or you might find the reimbursement you expect isn't coming.

Since 1989 this stock market has fallen 65%, but new laws generating labor market flexibility and a change in government make this market an attractive investment.

Visits to Fes, Marrakech, Casablanca and Rabat in Morocco made easy on a guided tour visiting a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the oldest tannery in Africa and spying scenes familiar from Hollywood classics.

The Airline Transportation sector has seen a huge turnaround from reduced labor costs, increased consumer spending, fewer flight cancellations and increased carrying capacity. And two carriers are turning these trends into revenue.

Insurance exchanges aren't off to a great start and now all the issues might not be fixed until well into December, according to federal contractors.

Two new projects from IBM Research will put artificial intelligence to work in teaching medical students and making sense of electronic medical records.

Concierge medicine and President Obama's Affordable Care Act may be getting all the headlines, but flying under the radar is the concept of direct primary care - concierge medicine for the masses.

Two state exchanges in the Northeast had the easiest exchanges to navigate while some performed poorly during phone support. However, one state rated worse than all the rest.

There may be a physician pay gap skewed in favor of male doctors, but a new study revealed that female physicians are outperforming male counterparts on certain care metrics.

Very few of us have a parent or role model who looked 60 years into our future. Using perpetual dividend raisers to get some income today and an even larger "paycheck" for your heirs later.

Having just come through the government shutdown and the debt ceiling deadline, it is critically important that we must not lose a true sense of what was actually most at stake financially.

Following a budget is incredibly important during retirement because of fixed income, and in these 10 places you can still live the good life.

Four experts discuss the current state of medical practice collections issues, the struggle with patient liability and the assumption that the ACA means all bills are paid for.

Sometimes, pulling the trigger on a new stock for your portfolio can be tough because there's an emotional component to trading and investing that can be difficult to master.

A psychiatrist friend of mine worked in a prison in her younger years. Though she was experienced in her field, this was her first prison job. She was naive in regard to prisons and prisoners. The inmates were not.

A lot of attention has been paid to EMR adoption and meaningful use, but a new report revealed that a quarter of hospitals have made no EMR progress in the last five years and some still remain paper-based.

Knowing the overall average retirement savings doesn't help you as an individual - you need to compare with other workers in your age group to get a better understanding of how you're doing.

Research has demonstrated time and again several areas that affect medication adherence among patients, but, overall, most medication adherence apps only address the unintentional forgetfulness of patients.

Investing your retirement savings wisely is not all that different from fighting a battle. Unfortunately, too many investors don't actually know the enemy they're fighting.

A U.S. default still seems unthinkable, but it is not impossible. Investors looking for some safety without fleeing the stock market altogether should consider these three ultra safe stocks... just in case.

A detour to religiously important Fatima, and the holiday towns of Sintra and Cascais on the way to Lisbon - Western Europe's least expensive capital and one of Europe's safest cities.

Despite what your tax advisor may tell you, you should never cash out of an investment for tax reasons alone. Nor do you have to. There's a smarter way to protect your gains from the prying hands of the IRS.

While foreclosure activity is on the decline in the majority of the country some cities reported recent sharp increases - one city reported an annual increase of 381%.

The ability to provide high-quality health care is a key factor to determining if physicians are satisfied with their jobs, and obstacles that got in the way are major sources of dissatisfaction.

Despite progress to resolve the current fiscal crisis, drug and medical device companies poised to seek regulatory approval from the FDA are still waiting for action as the agency puts new reviews on hold.