March 2008

An improved mammography system currently in clinical trials at Emory Universitys Breast Imaging Center in Atlanta is showing dramatic improvements in both early detection of suspicious lesions and reductions in false-positive readings.

Dr. Zankman discusses his involvement in a research project that requires participating physicians to digitally record patient visits for uploading to a national databank.

The Physician Office of the Future: 2020

Groups of researchers are working on a big fix for the Internet. But some want to replace it entirely. If you think it doesn't make sense, think again. It could reshape the way the healthcare industry conducts its e-business.

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation that is placing more responsibility and decision-making in the hands of patients. In this new healthcare world, physicians need tools that improve the...

Here in the Northeast, March is a month of anticipated change. After the short, cold, and dark days of February, March means still having some daylight left as we leave the office, the occasional spring tease of a mild day, and often the first signs of spring growth on the trees.

When speculating about what my practice might look like 20 years from now, I of course immediately imagined a healthcare utopia untainted by health insurance companies and medical malpractice lawyers.

Nanomedicine researchers from UCLA and Northwestern University have teamed up to develop nanoscale polymer thin films that provide efficient localized drug delivery to cloak implants, rendering them invisible to the bodys immune system.

Science fiction stories about robots usually fall into one of two categories: good robots or bad robots. In the future, we are told, the machines will either be our obsequious servants, quietly following our orders according to an ingrained code of ethics, or our malevolent adversaries, hell-bent on eradicating humankind.