It will be some time before gene therapy becomes a tool of practicing doctors.

About a quarter of practicing doctors, surveys show, have communicated with patients through e-mail.

On Friday, the agency scurried to explain the options in separate telecasts with practicing doctors and postal workers.

As a student, you hear a lot of comments from practicing doctors: 'You shouldn't go into medicine now.

Academia, scientific journals, practicing doctors and industry are heavily interdependent.

It is designed to be of use not just to patients but to researchers and practicing doctors.

On one side are patient advocates, drug companies and a small number of practicing doctors who favor long-term antibiotic treatment for chronic infections.

Also, practicing doctors may not perform a procedure exactly as it was conducted in the tests.

That, though, requires a cardiac catheterization laboratory, practiced doctors and staff on call 24 hours a day.

Male and female associates work with small groups of four or five medical students, residents or practicing doctors enrolled in continuing education programs.