Lifestyle

With crimes rates far lower than the national average, good schools, a high percentage of homeownership and a short commute to bustling downtowns, these suburbs are the best of the best for those looking to get out of the city.

Experiencing a market downturn when you first begin to withdraw your retirement funds can have a dramatic negative effect over time on the value of your portfolio. As part of your overall financial plan you should "stress test" your portfolio before you retire.

Patients are ready for more online health care access, but health information technology adoption in the industry isn't growing fast enough to meet that demand.

Those who have come to make their home the Ojai Valley fall into three broad types: the artists, the educators and the spiritual thinkers. Although sometimes it's hard to separate the artists from the spiritual thinkers.

There are two new taxes in 2013 for high-income Americans, but you don't have to be helpless. You can reduce future taxes with good planning and decisive action.

Many markets have seen increased competition as hospital consolidation continues. This trend has driven up physician compensation as doctors leave private practice for the income protection offered by hospital employment.

There are a lot of economic numbers coming out this week, and the reports could give us a good idea of how the U.S. economy is really doing.

Although workers in America claim they have learned from the experiences of current retirees, they've fallen behind the curve when it comes to retirement. The vast majority aren't sure they're saving enough to live comfortably during their golden years.

Vivus hopes to gain early traction with doctors before rival Arena Pharmaceuticals launches its weight-loss pill in early 2013.

Experts expect that six million Americans will have to pay a penalty for not buying health insurance, which will result in a total collection of $7 billion in 2016.

Small cities Amsterdam and Basel are full of culture and history with dozens of museums and plenty of public transportation to make getting around easy.

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Being associated with the development of a new medical procedure is one thing - it's quite another to have that procedure named after you. Kenneth Reed, MD, pioneer behind the Reed Procedure, knows a little something about it.

Despite rating their financial decision-making abilities highly, a majority of middle-class Americans reported making at least one really bad decision in the past that cost them an alarming amount of money on average.

The country may be facing a physician shortage, but stop-gap efforts like substituting nurses for physicians aren't the way to solve the shortage; team-based care is a better option, according to the AAFP.

Who wins the presidential election may tell us specifically where to place our money. Here's a look at sectors and plays that may hitch their future on who wins in November.

Driven by reimbursement and changes in standards of care, independent community oncology practices continue to dwindle as smaller practices struggle to provide all the needed resources.

Understanding that lenders are being held to higher underwriting standards, it behooves medical practices to take the necessary steps that will allow them to meet these new standards.

For a year and a half investors have had their eyes on Europe with the debt crisis ranking as the biggest concern. But there's a new issue in town: the U.S fiscal cliff.

Environmentalists are fond of reciting the slogan "Think global, act local," but the slogan has relevance for physicians too. After all, you can't expect to understand all 2,000-plus pages of ACA, but you can understand it enough to build a solid financial life plan around it.

Many people who have settled in Southern California's Ojai Valley have felt the same mystique the Chumash Indians valued in the land. Early settlers embraced the clean air and bathed in the hot sulphur springs.

Progress marches on, leaving behind it the remains of those items that didn't make the cut or have been surpassed by newer and better innovations. Here are seven items that are obsolete (and five on their way out).

The first few trading days this week will be quiet because of Rosh Hashanah, but there's still plenty going on. Oil prices continue to shoot up from fighting in the Middle East and Morgan Stanley has trumpeted health care stocks.

Drugmakers' pipeline success rates across every phase of development have been slowly worsening or, at best, staying flat. Lagging R&D is one of the industry's biggest problems.

At a time when physicians are looking to boost practice revenue, many are adding ancillary services as a way of improving their bottom lines. One of the more popular services is an in-house lab.

The advent of the travel site was a wonderful time for frugal vacationers. But not everyone has the time to check and compare every site out there.

All physicians should consider a professional will that covers what to do at your practice in the event of an unforeseen death or disability: you won't like going to the trouble and you'll hope that you never need it, but all involved will be relieved if the necessity of its use arises.

Two questions that will help investors gain a better understanding of any factors that may influence your advisor's financial recommendations.