Lifestyle

Singapore's Sentosa Island is a fantasy land with something for everyone, especially families, including beaches, a huge aquarium, Fort Siloso from WWII and a theme park.

The findings from a new report challenge the assumption that face-to-face interaction is always the preferred health care experience as patients choose virtual access if it meant better care.

Leaving residency or fellowship is the time physicians have to decide whether to remain employed by a hospital or go into private practice. Each scenario has pros and cons depending on lifestyle preferences.

For his humanitarian efforts in countries like Thailand, Burma and Iraq, pediatrician Robert Clifford, MD, has been awarded a REAL award by Save the Children.

Big medicine is, understandably, nervous about the large number of seniors that will start coming into doctors' offices, especially since they will also be handling millions of more patients from the Affordable Care Act.

The annual ranking of the top medical schools in America is out, and once again Harvard sits atop the list. Perhaps to celebrate, it raised its tuition the most out of the rest of the top 10.

The spirit of Mardi Gras lingers in southwestern Louisiana. However, being just across the border from Texas the residents are less Southern Belle and more likely to wear cowboy boots and hold rodeos.

The cavalcade of titles on Wall Street can be confusing - it's meant to be. The ever-changing titles on Wall Street have fooled the public for too long.

The U.S. just makes the top 20, ranking behind less affluent nations like the Czech Republic and Slovakia and just ahead of the U.K., according to a new study.

While there's no way to truly avoid being audited, these 10 red flags will increase your chances. However, good housekeeping and honest reporting will make the process fairly painless.

Doctors' offices that adopt electronic health record systems but don't make additional changes in their practices to cut costs stand to lose money, according to a new study.

While many physicians are attempting to determine whether selling their practice makes financial and professional sense, there are others who are bucking the trend by leaving larger organizations to start their own practices.

There's a lot to remember during tax season and the tax code only gets more complicated each year. There are a number of often overlooked deductions, plus you'll now have the new American Taxpayer Relief Act.

More than a third of physicians use their smartphones to research information on medications on a daily basis, according to a new report.

It's only when an investor truly sees himself and recognizes what he's doing is wrong that he changes his behavior, starts down the right path and reaches the end-goal: total financial independence.

The world of academic medicine and gerontology is so removed from the experience of those working in the trenches that sometimes we barely learn from each other.

Unfortunately, true tax reform is a will-o'-the-wisp that we like to talk about but will likely never see because there are so many varied special interests encoded that we will never willingly give up our personal pet deductions.

Location can really matter when it comes to your taxes as some states have much higher tax burdens than others. These 10 cities have the highest overall tax burdens for high-income earners.

If you want to travel to Southeast Asia with your family (or without), Singapore is the place. Clean, organized and virtually crime free, the city has many attractions geared to children.

Over the past three years Medicare plans were overpaid by up to $5.1 billion due to an inadequate coding adjustment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, according to a report.

The aggregate net worth of the world's 10 richest people in health care is $63.5 billion. The majority of these people founded successful health care companies that they either still run or have since sold to companies like Merck or Johnson & Johnson.

Given the tax changes ready to take effect, it is imperative that 2013 tax planning be implemented as soon as possible. There is no better time to discuss potential tax savings than when you meet with your tax advisor to review 2012 tax information.

A growing number of states have enacted laws permitting residents to legally shield their homes, savings and other assets from potential claims of creditors through establishing trusts.

For the first time in 20 years U.S. spending on prescription drugs actually declined thanks to cheaper generic drugs for common diseases like high cholesterol.

Many people have come to believe that investing for retirement or meeting other investment goals is just about the hardest thing in the world to do. It isn't. But they're doing the wrong things and they don't realize it.

Electronic health records may be more prevalent in the health industry, but user satisfaction has dropped with an increasing number of users saying they are very dissatisfied with their EHR's ability to decrease workload.

If you're considering taking advantage of the current low-interest-rate environment to refinance your home, then one large consideration is the intended time horizon in your current residence.

Lake Charles, La., has charms beyond Mardi Gras: its culinary attractions for example. Sure, since the city is in Southwest Louisiana you'd expect southern kitchen and Creole and Cajun renderings - but there's more.

For the fourth year in a row, Carlos Slim Helu topped the list while another billionaire fell out of the top three for the first time since 2000. The aggregate net worth of the entire Forbes list was up 17% over last year.

As part of the government spending cuts triggered on March 1, $1.6 billion will be cut from the National Institutes of Health, which advocates say will slow research and reverberate throughout the economy.