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Who's in the lead for our "Diagnose the Dow!" healthcare stock-picking contest? With only a month to go, only a handful of contestants have chosen stocks that are in positive territory. If you think you can do better, sign up and play for your chance to win an iPad.

We so much to the wave of technological advances that have enhanced our ability to accomplish our mission. But we also need to do some hard thinking and planning about how best to integrate the rate and means of technological change into the practice of medicine, or run the hazard of having our possible future utopia distort into a dystopia.

The 23% Medicare pay cuts are scheduled to go into effect Dec. 1, unless politicians act to delay it. The current prognosis from Washington, however, is that the lame duck Congress will punt once again, passing the political hot-potato to the incoming class.

Advice on how to select the right practice, and the key terms of employment and termination to consider when negotiating a private practice contract.

One of the biggest mistakes a new physician entrepreneur makes is to get all gung-ho about an idea for a service or gizmo. The more you fall in love with your own business idea, the greater your challenge will be to succeed. Instead, increase your odds of success by focusing on finding a problem that demands solving, and then try to solve it.

You've probably seen the bank advertisements offering up to $300 cash just for opening a new checking account. But as with anything that sounds too good to be true, it pays to read the fine print.

Emotions tend to guide our financial decisions -- often leading us to make mistakes with money. But studies show that embracing your emotions when making financial decisions can sometimes be helpful. Example: If you feel like you're being ripped off, you probably are.

A new study looks at geographic disparities in the appropriate prescribing of high-risk drugs, and finds that more spending doesn't always lead to better care.

Listen to our latest Webinar on year-end tax-planning advice! Our panel of experts will advise you on key tax-saving moves to make before year-end, and tell you what you can do right now to protect yourself from future tax-rate increases.

Any number of people can use the information you post on Facebook, or other social-networking sites, against you or the ones you love. Here are five of the biggest blunders to avoid with your Facebook account.

With so many states facing steep budget shortfalls, a reader worries that his investment in the state's prepaid college tuition plan may be at risk. He has good reason for concern.

Biotech stocks had a quite week as gainers offset decliners, despite a big surge in most major market indexes. The week's biggest deals in the sector signified the increasing importance of the Chinese healthcare market for investors.

A multidisciplinary practice -- one that includes both licensed medical doctors and other healthcare professionals, such as chiropractors, acupuncturists and other alternative medicine practitioners. But these non-traditional practices can face a number of challenging considerations.

U.S. medical students are prone to burnout, and those who experience it are more likely to engage in unprofessional conduct, a new study shows.

Are you ready to learn the truth about investing and financial planning? In my new blog, I'll expose the outright myths and lies most financial advisors feed doctors like you and me. Here you'll find simple, straight talk about investing and financial planning from a financial planner who is also a physician just like you.

If you missed last week's Webinar, "Medicine and the iPad: Lessons from an Early Adapter," a free archive of the presentation is now available.

Bond prices are way up, and yields are way down. If interest rates spike in this environment, many long-term bond investors may get burned. These investment ideas can help you find higher yields, while taming the risk of rising rates.

One way to improve your odds of long-term success and stability is to stay on top of your finances. In addition to the importance of clarity and wisdom in managing money, for most folks financial success is based on just a few simple ideas: How to acquire money, how to save it, and how best to spend it.

In 2009, the Harvard and Yale endowments were praised for beating the market with their broad diversification strategies. One year later, each of the endowments posted double-digit losses -- forcing Yale to borrow money to cover the shortfall. Here's what went wrong.

A physician was charged with illegally sharing the disappointing outcome of a clinical trial with a hedge-fund manager, the Wall Street Journal reported. The fund manager sold about six million shares of stock just before its share price plunged on the news.

In an earlier blog I promised to flesh out, in five parts, the 10 rules of successful entrepreneurship from the book, "The Intelligent Entrepreneur" by Bill Murphy Jr. I've changed my mind a little -- I'm going to devote one post to each rule, as there is such good, juicy stuff to share.

Who's in the lead for our "Diagnose the Dow!" healthcare stock-picking contest? One month into the contest and only six contestants have chosen stocks that are in positive territory, and none of the front-runners' stock picks are up more than 2%. Think you can do better?

When investment portfolios got whacked in 2008, the government suspended the rule that required those over age 70½ to take money out of retirement accounts. Now required minimum distributions (RMDs) are back and time is running out to take them.

The feel-good story of the Chilean miners rescue has wider significance to the financial world. Not just in the relative fortune the 33 miners will rake in from book and film offers, but in the way the blossoming of human opportunity can lead to financial success.

HCPLive recently had an opportunity to ask Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, about the NFL's new concussion policies and how they might impact all sports.

Are cell phones hazardous to your health? No one knows for sure, because government regulators didn't exactly perform their due diligence when putting the devices through a variety of tests to determine the impact of cell radiation on the body.

Whether you dream of leaving the winter chill for the sun and sandy beaches, or you seek out the warmth of a fireplace after a day of hitting the slopes, this year's top crop of winter vacation destinations has something for everyone.

October closed out with almost $1 billion in biotech IPOs, $3 billion in merger-and-acquisition activity, and potentially $3 billion in partnering deals. And an FDA approval sent at least one stock on a wild ride.

In the second in a two-part series on how to value your practice, experts offer advice on how to improve the value of your practice if you determine the business is not worth is much as you thought. Some fixes will be relatively easy, and others much more challenging.

It's open-enrollment season, and one reader wants to know which online resources he should recommend to his patients to help them choose the right health insurance plan.