Improving health assessments with a single cell
(Medical Xpress) -- There's a wealth of health information hiding in the human immune system. Accessing it, however, can be very challenging, as the many and complex roles that the immune system plays...
View ArticleTeens look to parents more than friends for sexual role models
The results of a national online study show that 45% consider their parents to be their sexuality role model. Shattering stereotypes that parents and society hold about teen sexuality, the survey also...
View ArticlePublic prefers limited informed consent process for biobanks
Biobanks are repositories for tissue samples, usually in the form of blood or saliva or leftover tissue from surgical procedures. These samples are collected and used for future research, including...
View ArticleTechnology poses no harm to nursing home residents
(Medical Xpress) -- The federal government is pushing doctors and hospitals to convert to electronic medical records by 2015, touting reductions in costs, increased patient safety and greater...
View ArticleSharing is caring when it comes to chronic illness
Sharing stories and health information with friends and families gives strength to Indigenous Australians living with chronic illness, a new study has found.
View ArticleSteps needed to ensure that home medical devices are easy-to-use and...
A new report from the National Research Council recommends steps the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies and professional associations can take to ensure that the medical devices and health...
View ArticleOlder women lack important information about sexual health
Many women over 50 years old date and are sexually active and thereby face many possible health risks. Yet, most educational campaigns designed to prevent sexually transmitted diseases target younger...
View ArticleNew report on creating clinical public use microdata files
The demand for transparency through publicly available healthcare data is on the rise. This is the case for administrative and clinical data for research, and for clinical trials data used to support...
View ArticleYouTube videos can inaccurately depict Parkinson's disease and other movement...
Looking online for medical information? Viewers beware, doctors caution. After reviewing the most frequently watched YouTube videos about movement disorders, a group of neurologists found that the...
View ArticleParents who go online for pediatric health information are open to doctors'...
While parents commonly use the Internet to learn about pediatric health problems, little is known about how often they seek out this information, and how they use it prior to seeking medical care.
View ArticleInternists address dual concerns of privacy and protection of health data
Fears about re-uses of personal data as well as re-uses of research data and samples are the focus of a policy paper released today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The new document, which...
View ArticleNew formula can help set commissioning budgets for general practices
A new formula that can predict future health costs more accurately than previous models could help guide commissioning budgets for general practices under the government's new Health Bill, finds a...
View ArticleMajor report identifies significant gaps and weaknesses
Children and young people who have chronic health conditions or need operations don't always have access to the high-quality, child-friendly information they need to understand what is happening to...
View ArticleJournal supplement presents strategies for introducing health care delivery...
The health care system in the United States faces numerous challenges: how to bring innovation from the laboratory to the bedside, how to ensure more equitable use of medical services and, in a time of...
View ArticleStudies of health information exchanges yet to show strong evidence of benefits
Health information exchanges are supposed to improve the speed, quality, safety and cost of patient care, but there is little evidence of that in existing health information exchange benefit studies,...
View ArticleA new quality indicator for sources of health knowledge
A little health knowledge can be a very dangerous thing, especially if the information comes from the Internet. Now, research published in the International Journal of Intelligent Information and...
View ArticleDiscovering another interoperability challenge in health information exchange
Health information exchange enables clinicians to have secure access to a patient's medical record including details on care received at other locations. But an important piece of information is...
View ArticleImproving the quality of medical care using computer understanding of human...
How can computer-based analysis of free text—the narrative comments found in medical records and expressed in everyday language or technical terminology - help improve the quality of medical care?
View ArticleIncrease seen in data breaches of health information
Between 2010 and 2013, data breaches of protected health information reported by HIPAA-covered entities increased and involved approximately 29 million records, with most data breaches resulting from...
View ArticleMonitoring maternal and children health in rural India
Imagine community health workers fanning out across rural villages and muddy fields to survey villagers in West Bengal, the fourth-most populous state in India.
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