Lifestyle

Rather than rehash the year or make foolish predictions about next year, Jeff Brown is cutting to the useful stuff that you can use to start out the new year.

A carefully planned gifting program can help you achieve personal aspirations, but it also reduces one's estate and thus minimizes the estate taxes that your heirs may have to pay upon your death.

A checklist of actions for medical practices and individual physicians to make based on current tax rules.

It's not unusual for an adolescent to cry when he or she has to visit the doctor. What is unusual is that they cry when it's time to leave the doctor's office. But that's the case at Thornburg Pediatrics in Naples, Florida, one of the only concierge pediatric medicine practices in the country.

It can be challenging to help patients make substantive lifestyle changes during brief office visits. A good place to begin is at the beginning-with breakfast.

The developing brain is adversely affected by poverty. The long-term effects are not only negative for the child, but society in general. If you have ready cash, you might want to consider giving aid to families caught in the economic downturn.

There's exactly one year until the supposed apocalypse in 2012. Considering how many false predictions there have been and the lack of any evidence how seriously should you take it? And if you believe, what can you do with your money?

There's more than history to this city of 34 museums. For one thing, it has the greatest number of free attractions than any city in the United States other than Washington, D.C.

This cancer doctor has a strong interest in spirituality and religion, which has lost him some patients in the past but drawn others to him, and overall has given him a more rewarding experience as a doctor.

An interview with a physician who created an electronic medical record and embraces the idea of an educated "patient consumer."

With less than two weeks left to go in the year, Congress has delivered disappointing and devastating news to physicians that the Medicare cut will stay linked to a tax bill that has deadlocked Congress.

The holidays either bring out the reveler in all of us or drive us to despair from spending too much time with family. Either way, the best way to spend the long, cold nights of the end of the year is with a drink in your hand.

The health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in 2010 has helped as many as 2.5 million young adults gain medical coverage over the last year.

Tax, investment and insurance mistakes doctors make when following advice that is designed for tens of millions of average Americans, and how to avoid these pitfalls.

The stock market started the day with slight gains after news of the death of North Korea's Kim Jung Il, but finished the day down when bank stocks fell after news out of Europe.

A look back at the predictions for 2011 and how they panned out. Plus, what you can expect when

There are different benefits and disadvantages to taking a cruise vs. taking a land tour. So how can you tell which is right for you?

Busy physicians are often going from patient to patient and touching their mobile devices in between. Here are some washable covers to eliminate the danger of cross-contamination.

In part two of this interview with the CEO of Medley Health, Steve Wigginton discusses the services that his company offers to physicians transitioning to membership-based practices.

Sweden may be a socialist country (the state has equity stake in 55 companies) with punishing tax rates, but right now it has a vibrant economy with 5%-plus economic growth over the last two years.

The second part of an interview with the principle of a prominent San Francisco-based private equity firm.

Considering how low approval ratings are, it's probably no surprise that members of Congress have one of the lowest honesty and ethics ratings.

Steve Wigginton, CEO of Medley Health, discusses membership-based practices and the benefits they bring to both physicians and patients in part one of this podcast.

The stock market does not know its previous history, and its past sequence of returns isn't going to shed any light on what it's going to do in the immediate future.

Cash currently earns little to no interest in a traditionally risk free money market. If the money isn't essential later in life, then you should use it to vacation with the family or for some other experience.

Americans consistently rate doctors, nurses and pharmacists as the most honest and ethical of professions.

Physicians are mostly pessimistic about the benefits of health care reform and believe that the best and brightest who might have considered a career in medicine will now think otherwise.

Whether or not a charitable donation is tax deductible depends on a number of factors. Cash donations are easy to figure out, but a non-cash donation can be trickier.

Wealth advisory firm urges investors to keep the faith in equities, seek out risk-managed investments and exploit tax-planning opportunities.

Despite the troubling economic events of the last year, the current market conditions are actually having a positive effect on Americans' financial habits in the long run.