Healthcare is the economic engine of the United States: one of the few places that shows consistent job growth even in the face of global economic doldrums.But just because there are jobs doesn’t mean you would want them (no matter how much they pay). Healthcare reform, digital health and a global marketplace have thrown some [...]

This month is MedCityNews.com’s 3rd birthday. Over three years, with your help, we’ve grown from a site focused on healthcare innovation in Cleveland to the leading online portal reporting nationally on innovation and business-to-business insight for leaders in the healthcare and the life sciences.Knowing what our readers need has been a key to our success. [...]

A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:10 cardiologists to follow on Twitter. Some notable cardiologists have embraced Twitter ’ one even wrote a useful guide to help cardiologists get started on it ’ and certainly more figure to adopt the technology as it becomes more ubiquitous in the future. [...]

Every week, MedCity News highlights the best of its MedCitizens: syndication partners and MedCity News readers who discuss life science current events on MedCityNews.com.Now here’s the best of what YOU had to say:Med tech consolidation brings a need for focus. Here are 2 ways to get it. “The medical technology industry has grown quickly and [...]

I once told a physician friend that he and all doctors would eventually have to give up private practices and be employed by a hospital. “No,” he told me. “I will die with my boots on.”But do the dreaded hospital acquisitions of private practices actually empower doctors — and in particular, cardiologists? var page_count = [...]

A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:A life science entrepreneur’s guide to making a great speech. And after talking with some of the entrepreneurs, here are my tips on public speaking to keep you from losing the room (and the opportunities in it).var page_count = “off”; [...]

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SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, are hurtling toward defeat thanks to a group of monied venture capitalists, Internet entrepreneurs and big companies that all have a direct, vested interest in avoiding the invasive measures SOPA and PIPA would allow.Taken another way, SOPA and PIPA are like the Internet’s [...]

I still remember how red-face frustrated one of my seed investors was after hearing my pitch to another investor in Month One of the business. “It’s a process,” he repeatedly said out loud — and I am pretty sure he was talking to himself.While I’ve always been an adequate-to-solid public speaker, I struggled early boiling [...]

A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:Klout’s top social media influencers in medicine. We created Klout’s list of the Top 10 social media influencers in medicine after last week’s top KLout healthcare influencers. What’s the difference between that and healthcare? At first glance, the medicine list includes almost exclusively [...]