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Electronic patient records are not a panacea

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Large-scale electronic patient record (EPR) programmes promise much but sometimes deliver little, according to a new study by UCL researchers that reviewed findings from hundreds of previous studies from all over the world.


Online tool for tracking family health history gets upgrade

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Consumers now have a new tool to organize and share their family health histories. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday released an updated version of its "My Family Health Portrait."


Smoking cessation drug not linked to an increased risk of self harm or depression

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

There is no strong evidence that the popular smoking cessation drug varenicline increases the risk of self harm or depression compared to other cessation products, according to new research published on BMJ.com today.





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Disparity in use of implantable devices to prevent sudden death in heart failure patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of heart failure patients who meet national guidelines for devices that stabilize and strengthen the heart's electrical system found that only half of eligible patients received the devices. The study, which is the ...


IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.


Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis, researcher says

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Society will be unable to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies that might improve health, reduce traffic congestion and give scientists new insights into human behavior until it resolves questions about ...


Antidepressants cut risk of hospital readmission for suicidal youth

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Suicidal adolescents who were prescribed an antidepressant medication during inpatient psychiatric hospital treatment were 85 percent less likely than others to be readmitted within a month after discharge, a new study found.


Aggressive infection control protects cancer patients from acquiring H1N1 influenza

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in ...


FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for patients with pacemakers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

FDA researchers have found that certain cardiac pacemakers may inadequately stimulate a patient's heart while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan due to the magnetic pulses mixing with the electronic pulses ...


Studies quantify radiation doses, cancer risks from CT scans

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doses of radiation from commonly performed computed tomography (CT) scans vary widely, appear higher than generally believed and may contribute to an estimated tens of thousands of future cancer cases, according to two reports ...


Canadian first: The heart in telemonitoring

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) recently performed the first implantation of a new type of cardiac pacemaker (Accent RF) in Canada. This landmark procedure was carried out on October 22, 2009 ...


Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent ...


Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.



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