The road from disease research to disease cure isn't usually a smooth one. One role which bridges the laboratory and the clinic is that of the "clinician-scientist" – a doctor who understands disease both in the patient and in the Petri dish.

I wrote about the cozy relationship between pharmaceutical companies and academics last month but now the subject is heating up in the New York Times.

I received an email from a reader who plans on a career in surgery; she asked about empathy, or lack thereof, and how it affects a surgeon. It's an interesting question, and it plays in both directions. Other than situational intensity, I think it's the same for all docs.

A group of American doctors that promotes human rights says it has examined 11 former detainees who were held by the U.S. military, and determined they were systematically tortured with the complicity of medical personnel. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon.

A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given Congressional investigators.

There Won't Be Any Health Care Reform Without Physician Payment Reform and There Won't Be Any Physician Payment Reform Unless the Doctors Lead The Way.

When people go to the doctor, they're usually at a heightened level of anxiety; either they're not feeling well or they're quite worried about something.

Change can be difficult. It also can be rewarding. In the case of a medical school culture, change can have important consequences for what students learn and what type of physicians they ultimately become. Successfully altering an institution’s culture can be accomplished without massive amounts of funding or strict administrative edicts, say researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

A new campaign to help fund trainee doctors in Malawi was launched by a medical graduate of Imperial College London.

The nation's peak medical group warns overworked doctors will soon start leaving the profession, unless changes are made to working hours.

Seasoned primary care doctors are abandoning their practices and scores of recently trained physicians are eschewing primary care for more lucrative specialties, creating a severe shortage that’s putting the nation’s health at risk. That’s the unsettling problem examined by a WBUR “Inside Out Documentary” initially airing at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Friday, April 11, and repeated at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 13.

Health authorities have expressed alarm at an increase in the number of doctors being investigated over suspected Medicare rorts.