HCPLive: Specialty Clinical News for Physicians and the Whole Care Team
HCPLive is a multimedia clinical news platform for physicians and other health care professionals, published by MJH Life Sciences from Cranbury, New Jersey. It describes itself as a comprehensive clinical news and information portal providing up-to-date specialty- and disease-specific resources to help clinicians deliver better care to patients. That breadth is its defining characteristic. Where many medical titles serve a single specialty, HCPLive spans medicine as a whole, organizing breaking news, video interviews with physician experts, in-depth conference coverage, practice management updates and contributor analysis by specialty and disease state. A cardiologist, a dermatologist, a gastroenterologist and a psychiatrist can each enter the same platform and find a news stream built around their own patients. At hcplive.com, the platform functions less like a single magazine than like a newsroom shared by dozens of clinical communities under one brand.
From MD Magazine in 2000 to HCPLive
The platform's history runs through an earlier brand. Company announcements state that MD Magazine launched in 2000 and served as a leading destination for physicians, pharmacists, managed care executives and other health care professionals seeking tools, techniques and information to provide better care. The publication later operated under the HCPLive name, then as MD Magazine again, before MJH Life Sciences announced that MD Magazine would return to its branding as HCPLive. Announcing that rebrand, Michael J. Hennessy Jr., president of MJH Life Sciences, framed it as media evolving alongside health care itself, with an expanded focus on diagnostics and precision medicine for providers in any field of care. The rebrand also introduced the HCPLive Network, a collaborative system of specialty publications headlined at the time by ContagionLive, NeurologyLive and Rare Disease Report — an early statement of the network model in which a general clinical platform and focused specialty platforms reinforce each other.
Inside MJH Life Sciences
HCPLive is a brand of MJH Life Sciences, which describes itself as the largest privately held, independent, full-service medical media company in North America, dedicated to delivering trusted health care news across multiple channels. The company's roots trace to founder Michael J. Hennessy Sr., who graduated from Rider College in New Jersey in 1982, began in medical publishing as a sales trainee, and launched Multimedia Healthcare in 1993 before pioneering a combined print and digital approach with Intellisphere, the business that became part of MJH Life Sciences. Company leadership later passed to the next generation, with Michael J. Hennessy Jr. becoming president and, in 2019, president and chief executive officer. In 2019 the company acquired the UBM Life Sciences Group brands, a deal that added numerous established titles and made it the largest privately held medical media company in the United States at the time. Headquartered in Cranbury, New Jersey, MJH combines digital and print products, live events, educational programs and market research. HCPLive sits near the center of that portfolio as its broadest clinical news front door.
How the Coverage Is Organized
HCPLive organizes its journalism by specialty and disease area, which its own staff structure makes visible. Its About page lists editorial staff with defined coverage territories: a strategic content lead covering hepatology, gastroenterology, nephrology, cardiology, endocrinology and ophthalmology; an assistant managing editor covering rheumatology, pulmonology, allergy and dermatology, who also oversees production for a related rheumatology platform; associate and assistant editors assigned to dermatology, and to allergy, psychiatry and sleep medicine, among other beats. Senior leadership listed on the page includes a chief brand officer and senior vice president and vice president of content. That beat structure is the platform in miniature: medicine is too large for generalist reporters alone, so coverage is divided among editors who follow the journals, meetings, drug pipelines and guideline debates of specific fields, while a shared senior team maintains common standards. Readers navigate to their specialty and find a feed that behaves like a dedicated specialty publication, backed by the resources of a general one.
News, Video and Expert Formats
The HCPLive format mix is deliberately multimedia. Its own descriptions list breaking news, video interviews with physician experts, in-depth conference coverage, finance and practice management updates, and insights and analysis from physician contributors. Named series add texture: an Insights video series, peer exchange panels in which experts discuss evidence and cases, a Peers and Perspectives video series, and social media discussions including live broadcast interviews from major medical meetings and a DocTalk tweet chat series. A podcast series highlighting insights from leading clinicians and researchers was introduced alongside the rebrand. This emphasis on video and audio reflects how clinicians actually consume professional media — in short segments between patients, on commutes and at meetings — and it lets the platform put practicing experts, rather than only staff writers, in front of its audience. A trial result can appear first as a breaking news story, then as a video interview with an investigator, then as a peer panel debating what the result should change in clinic.
Conference Coverage as a Core Service
Medical conferences are where much of clinical medicine's news is made, and HCPLive treats them as a core beat. Its descriptions emphasize live medical meeting coverage and in-depth conference reporting, with broadcast interviews conducted at major meetings. For specialists who cannot attend every relevant congress — and no clinician can attend them all — that coverage functions as a reporting service from inside the meeting: late-breaking trial presentations, guideline updates, expert reactions and the practical arguments that follow a controversial result. Because the platform covers many specialties, its conference calendar runs almost continuously through the year, from cardiology and oncology congresses to dermatology, psychiatry, gastroenterology and infectious disease meetings. The same coverage also feeds the specialty sections and video series, so a single meeting can generate news stories, interviews and panel discussions that remain useful long after the meeting ends.
FDA News and Practice-Changing Developments
Among the content types MJH highlighted at the rebrand were breaking Food and Drug Administration news and material on diagnostics and precision medicine. Regulatory decisions are among the most immediately practice-changing events in medicine: an approval creates a new treatment option, a label expansion changes who qualifies for a therapy, a safety communication changes how a drug must be monitored. A platform read across specialties must report those decisions quickly and accurately, and then translate them — through expert interviews and contributor analysis — into what they mean for a specific clinic population. HCPLive's structure supports that two-step model. The news desk can move fast across all of medicine, while specialty editors and physician contributors supply the disease-specific context that determines whether an approval is a minor addition or a genuine shift in the standard of care for their readers' patients.
Partnerships With Professional and Patient Organizations
HCPLive extends its work through formal partnerships with health organizations. MJH Life Sciences announced that HCPLive and the American Lung Association marked five years of collaboration, with the partners committed to further projects intended to empower health care providers and transform respiratory care — a partnership that aligns the platform's pulmonology coverage with the leading American organization focused on lung health. In dermatology, HCPLive and sister title Dermatology Times partnered with the Skin of Color Society, an international professional organization founded in 2004 by Susan C. Taylor, MD, to promote excellence in skin of color dermatology through research, education, mentorship and advocacy. That collaboration produces podcast and editorial content intended to raise awareness of health care disparities and promote solutions for patients of color. These partnerships show a platform strategy beyond daily news: aligning with trusted professional and advocacy organizations to produce sustained, topic-focused content in areas where clinician education can change outcomes.
Practice Management and the Business of Care
Clinical knowledge is only part of what HCPLive's audience needs. Its descriptions explicitly include finance and practice management updates among its content, reflecting the reality that its readers also run practices, departments and clinics. Reimbursement changes, coding questions, staffing pressures and the economics of adopting a new therapy all determine whether a clinically sound idea survives contact with a real practice. Serving that need alongside trial news is part of what distinguishes a professional platform from a research journal, and it connects HCPLive to its MD Magazine heritage, which from its 2000 launch addressed physicians, pharmacists and managed care executives together. For the modern reader — often a clinician who is also a practice partner, a department leader or an employee of a large health system navigating productivity and quality metrics — a single destination that covers both the science and the business context of a specialty has practical value that neither a pure journal nor a pure business title can match.
HCPLive Within the Specialty Network
The HCPLive Network concept announced at the rebrand has grown into a defining feature of MJH Life Sciences. Rather than forcing every specialty audience into one undifferentiated feed, the company operates focused platforms — NeurologyLive for neurology, ContagionLive for infectious disease and others across oncology, psychiatry, ophthalmology and many more fields — while HCPLive serves as the comprehensive portal across all of them. Editorial staff move between these brands; HCPLive's own masthead notes editors who have written for NeurologyLive and other sister platforms. For readers, the practical effect is continuity: following a topic from HCPLive's broad coverage into a specialty platform's deeper stream requires no change of publisher, standard or style. For the publisher, the network allows one reporting infrastructure — conference teams, video production, expert panels — to serve dozens of clinical communities efficiently, which is the economic engine that makes comprehensive free access for clinicians possible.
HCPLive Today
Today HCPLive operates from Cranbury, New Jersey, as one of the flagship digital brands of MJH Life Sciences, the company built by the Hennessy family into North America's largest privately held medical media business. Its verified identity rests on a clear set of facts: origins in a physician publication launched in 2000, a high-profile return to the HCPLive brand under Michael J. Hennessy Jr., specialty- and disease-organized coverage produced by beat editors, a heavy investment in video series, peer panels and podcasts, sustained conference and FDA news coverage, and partnerships with organizations such as the American Lung Association and the Skin of Color Society. It is not a peer-reviewed journal and does not present itself as one; it is a professional news service whose promise is speed, breadth and expert context. For clinicians who need to know what changed in their specialty today — a trial, an approval, a guideline, a practice reality — HCPLive is built to be the first place that news arrives in usable form.
