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A lot of scientists, engineers, and health professionals have good ideas, discoveries, or inventions. Unfortunately, most of them are a solution looking for a problem.

If you're planning your Florida getaway, put these beaches and resorts on your list.

The head of the Smithsonian Institution also happens to be a physician. He recently offered leadership insights to the graduating class of Fordham University.

Do you have student loans? Wouldn't you love to destroy them and be debt-free? I'd like to invite you to join me in a movement to terminate the deadly burden of student loans.

I've written previously about the 5 Best reasons to retire early. Today, I present the counterpoint, the Top 5 Reasons Not to Retire Early.

Buy/sell agreements, also known as buyout agreements, help ensure partners in a business have a plan, and a financial arrangement, if one partner withdraws or is unable to carry on in the business.

Reading, whether it's business books or classic novels, can bring a variety of benefits to entrepreneurs.

A number of programs exist to help veterans pay for college. But as more and more vets take advantage of those problems, gaps and ambiguities in the programs are becoming more evident.

In Part 3 of his reflections on his adopted home country, Eric Anderson, MD, explores some of the crucial events of America's 19th century history.

Economists like to follow leading and lagging indicators. When it comes to tracking biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship, they should pay attention to patient and physician entrepreneurs as leading indicators.

A group of more than 100 prominent physicians and professors is sounding the alarm about the dangers of holding this summer’s Olympics at the epicenter of the Zika Virus crisis. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List. Also making the list: House calls lead to cost savings, even as the average family of four sees its health cost soaring.

A New York internist followed her instincts into a totally new career direction. She's now become a popular author and launched her own line of vitamins and supplements.

Here's a look at our top five stories for the week that ended May 27.

Airlines are getting stingier and stingier with their rewards, but more and more credit cards are offering benefits for travelers. Here's a look at some of the best.

There will come a time shortly when patients and doctors will get used to having a third person in the room—a voice-activated physician assistant.

At present, we are not delivering a 21st Century workforce and the skills gap does not stop after high school.

Financial Independence, defined as the ability to live your current lifestyle without employment income, is a powerful tool with amazing benefits. I believe it is a laudable goal every physician should aim to achieve.

The common thread among successful leaders and practices is that they have a clear vision of what they want to develop.

If you think you make decisions -- whether about which candidate to vote for or which house to buy -- based on objective facts, you're kidding yourself.

Missouri says the merger of the two insurance giants would make the state's Medicare Advantage market anti-competitive. It's asking the companies to propose remedies that would address the state's concerns.

Determining which hedge fund will be advantageous for a particular portfolio isn't just as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. It's roughly akin to finding a needle in a field full of haystacks.

Empathy, compassion, and patience seem to be in short supply in the examining room, the classroom, and the operating room.

A new report offers insights into the future of medicine. It shows many physicians are thinking about career changes, and 1 in 4 report burnout and stress.

Doctors are being pounded to teach to the test. But every patient-student is different and each is smart in their own way.

As the consolidation and integration trend continues in the healthcare industry, payers and providers will have to adjust to the evolving post-healthcare reform changes if they want to remain profitable and continue to grow their businesses.

At Wild Dunes Resort on South Carolina’s Isle of Palms, your beach vacation comes with a southern Lowcountry landscape of live oaks draped with Spanish moss plus good food, resort activities, and eco-adventures.

We need to stop reality TV B-school business plan competitions and get real about business model competitions.

Patients are terrible consumers of sick care services. Most attribute it to the lack of price and quality of care transparency and the incentives to make rational purchases. Behavioral economists have a more complex answer.

A recently enacted law creates a new way to potentially improve your tax situation through charitable giving.

Entrepreneurship is critical to the formula of economic long-term success. However, the US has been falling behind.