In response to Garry's comment, yes, you are correct. The HMSMobile application actually was launched by Harvard Medical School. Thanks for your response!

About four months ago, I posted a blog asking our readers if they were using social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., for professional purposes. The majority of those who responded seem to have discovered social media as a pretty good way to connect with their peers in the industry.   Consider these comments we ...

It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the ''Winner: Best Foreign Language Film, 2008 Venice Film Festival'' sticker on it. But tonight you're in the mood for a poorly acted and painfully predictable slasher film; the one where the band of promising, carefree teens head ...

Being 36 years old and a journalist, I have to acknowledge a soft spot for newspapers. I remember a time when the local weekly was really the only game in town when it came to delivering news, sports scores, political commentary and the ruminations of my fellow Quakertown, Pa. residents on the ineptitude of borough council. So, on a strictly ...

The ruckus surrounding health care reform has been well-documented, here and elsewhere. If you're looking for careful, considered discourse on the U.S. health care system and how to fix it, the seemingly endless stream of ''town hall-style'' forums and political discussions dedicated to the subject won't have much to offer you. Politicians ...

Earlier this week, Bob Mitchell, our managing editor here at ADVANCE, posted a blog chastising the behavior of some overzealous attendees at a recent public debate on U.S. health care reform held in the Philadelphia area. But the City of Brotherly Love isn't the only place where the ''discussion'' surrounding proposed health care legislation has ...

This is probably an unfair generalization. But for some of us over 30, it's been tempting to dismiss online social networking as the domain of teens and Millennials who hardly remember a time when they couldn't instantly share their every opinion, mood and mundane detail of their daily lives with everyone inhabiting their online universe. But ...

Most Seinfeld fans certainly remember ''The Package'' episode, involving a subplot in which Elaine Benes is unable to find a doctor willing to treat her troublesome rash. Branded a ''difficult'' patient by her primary care physician, Benes scours New York City doctors' offices in search of treatment, even plotting to steal her medical records with ...

Using a technique called dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), chemists at Duke University have developed an approach that enables them to use MR to see other molecules. DNP, which adjusts the spins of atomic nuclei to increase their signal drastically, has the ability to detect molecular changes associated with cancer and other conditions, ...

According to a recent study, acupressure wristbands that put pressure on a ''nausea point'' identified by traditional Chinese acupuncture might help cancer patients experience nearly 25 percent less nausea during radiation treatments. Findings of the study, conducted at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical ...