News tagged with disease outbreaks
Fighting disease outbreaks with two-way health information exchange
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Building upon four decades of research and real world operation of electronic medical records and health information exchange, Regenstrief Institute researchers have developed, tested and are now operating ...
Twitter and health care -- can a tweet a day keep the doctor away?
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Twitter, the increasingly popular social networking tool that was at first merely a convenient way to stay in touch with friends and family, is emerging as a potentially valuable means of real-time, on-the-go communication ...
Computer modeling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations
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Jun 02, 2009 |
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An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.
In the turf war against seaweed, coral reefs more resilient than expected
Jun 01, 2009 |
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There's little doubt that coral reefs the world over face threats on many fronts: pollution, diseases, destructive fishing practices and warming oceans. But reefs appear to be more resistant to one potential menace - seaweed ...
Influenza pandemic planning needed to assure adequate care for pregnant women and newborns
May 13, 2009 |
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Pregnant women and newborns are at greatest risk in a flu epidemic, but more planning must be done to ensure that they receive priority treatment should an outbreak occur, according to a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...
Companies mine Web clues for signs of pandemics
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already ...
Report: Source of Okla. E. coli outbreak a mystery
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An extensive investigation has failed to determine how E. coli bacteria was introduced into a northeastern Oklahoma restaurant linked to hundreds of illnesses and one death, the state health board said in a report ...
Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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North America's biological field stations have long been home to a rich legacy of research results, scientists say, making them important places for serendipitous discoveries in the biological and environmental ...
Getting the word out when the need for speed is critical to public health
Apr 03, 2009 |
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When the need for speed is critical, how can a public health department communicate with doctors and hospitals, sending alerts to help prevent or stop a public health crisis? How can thousands of health-care ...
Predicting mosquito outbreaks for disease control
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Adelaide researchers have shown they can predict the biggest population peaks of disease-carrying mosquitoes up to two months ahead.
Crawling the Internet to track infectious disease outbreaks
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, ...
