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While everything that's written these days is geared towards the internet and the online world, I frequently find it interesting to compare a particular article to its version in print.

I like comedy news host John Oliver. He was among the top nine funniest guys in the first season of "Community" and he even won an Emmy when Jon Stewart made the jokes of Oliver's colleagues sound hilarious.

As much as I have loved and quietly chuckled over the many media headlines (and social media commentary) this week about a new study suggesting female patients with heart attack

When you practice medicine, you are often tethered to your smartphone.

The U.S. electricity grid is hard to defend because of its enormous size and heavy dependency on digital communication and computerized control software.

The US Preventative Care Task Force (USPCTF) indicated today that an electrocardiogram, an EKG, is not an ineffective screening tool for atrial fibrillation – a disorder of the heart’s rhythm.

It is time to question the boondoggle that is and will be the implementation of the World Health Organization-generated International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (

Results of a new study released this week about soccer, and the effects that "heading" the ball has on the brain, delivered one key takeaway message: women's brain matter appears to be more sensitive than men's.

Patients with limited financial resources often have difficulties getting to their physician and hospital appointments.

Alan Alda has Parkinson's disease. Just like that, the well-known actor disclosed his condition for the first time Tuesday on national TV. He did not appear defeated, depressed or morose. In fact, just the opposite.