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  1. Getting paid for prevention: Physicians facing coding challenges
  2. New Web site on imaging safety draws criticism
  3. Missouri Supreme Court: Doctors can sue if hospitals ignore bylaws in privileging issues
  4. Aetna launches personalized health search engine
  5. Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009
  6. Similar drug-name pairs nearly double 2004 tally
  7. Latest Medicare projections renew alarm on long-term sustainability
  8. Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who's giving you the minimum
  9. Patients generally pleased with hospital care
  10. Online feedback site adds doctor category
  11. More physicians backing national coverage -- study
  12. Crimeproof your practice: How to improve office safety
  13. Advanced-practice nurses seek wider scope in 24 states
  14. Medicare disease-management pilot faces closure over costs
  15. U.S. report finds sluggish increases in quality of care
  16. Walk-ins welcome, but only if they're healthy
  17. Doctor-staffed retail clinics to open
  18. Boomer loyalty: Insurers draw on a little help from their friends to market pre-Medicare coverage
  19. Hospital told to check bylaws on exclusive deals
  20. Foiling a fake (book excerpt: Charlatan)
  21. Lawyers' misconduct triggers new liability trials
  22. Baby boomer time bomb: Too many aging patients, too few geriatricians
  23. Physicians examine the role of annual checkups in prevention
  24. Calculate your ideal patient load: How to strike the correct balance
  25. Rulings limit patients' ability to sue device firms, drugmakers
  26. Doctor disciplinary actions down for 3rd year
  27. Harvard offers discount on med school tuition
  28. Health plans say they'll risk losing members to protect profit margins
  29. Hospitalized kids found at risk for drug errors
  30. Misfortune telling: Folding together data to forecast your patients' health futures
  31. Med schools asked to shun drug firm freebies
  32. Study: Med schools can boost rural physician supply
  33. E-prescribing campaign aims at patients to reach doctors
  34. Social networking etiquette: Making virtual acquaintances
  35. Gearing up for a graying generation: Training more doctors in geriatrics skills
  36. AMA encourages future physicians
  37. Formula for rationing care: Task forces plan for disaster
  38. Google enters personal health record market
  39. Twilight of the beeper: Today's technology offers other ways of keeping connected
  40. FDA drug safety review to start with Medicare
  41. More Americans find insurance pays for visits to retail clinics
  42. Revitalizing dead space: Finding an innovative place for your practice
  43. Patients rarely use online ratings to pick physicians
  44. Medical schools on target to reach enrollment goals
  45. Minorities underrepresented in California doctor work force
  46. AMA meeting: Physicians demand greater oversight of doctors of nursing
  47. 6 rules cutting Medicaid delayed until 2009
  48. Making the practice switch: One doctor became an employee, the other started his own office
  49. Drug industry: No more free pens, pads or mugs
  50. Med school for judges: A crash course in medical litigation
  51. Dead doctors' IDs used to bilk Medicare
  52. Kansas court enforces noncompete clause
  53. Ethics consultants get doses of realism through simulations
  54. Greening your practice: Cutting costs while conserving energy
  55. Medicare DME bidding program on hold
  56. Most states said to have good rules on pain medicines
  57. Academic leaders work to ease work force crisis
  58. Final Medicare no-pay rule targets 10 hospital-acquired conditions
  59. Work-hour limits found to create little respite for residents
  60. Sponges, surgical instruments miscounted in 13% of surgeries
  61. Doctors decry payment delays after Medicare overhauls carrier system
  62. Court dismisses Arkansas specialty hospital's lawsuit
  63. Medical student stress and burnout leave some with thoughts of suicide
  64. Google uses online queries to see where flu interest is peaking
  65. Wikipedia often misses important drug facts
  66. Tech-savvy med students fear life without EMRs
  67. Defensive medicine widespread among Massachusetts doctors
  68. AAMC report says 30% med school enrollment hike is not enough
  69. TV doctors' flaws become bioethics teaching moments
  70. New treatment guidelines address chronic pain
  71. Shortages forecast for orthopedic surgeons, gastroenterologists
  72. Several states face battles over optometry scope of practice
  73. AMA letter backs Obama's broad principles for health system reform
  74. Doctor gets jail time for online, out-of-state prescribing
  75. Academic physicians avoid burnout by focusing on favorite tasks
  76. Press releases found to exaggerate research findings
  77. Many hospitals cut back on infection-control efforts
  78. Scientific competencies for med students defined
  79. How to reduce your practice's credit card fees
  80. Did a strep infection bring Mozart's finale?
  81. Apologizing for medical errors may not stop you from being sued