News tagged with care providers

Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity

(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most Canadians can be uniquely identified from their date of birth and postal code

There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making. But Canadians are more likely to allow the sharing of their personal data if they believe ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Digital health tech on display at electronics show

Technology companies showed off the latest innovations on the digital health care front at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) alongside the newest smartphones, touchscreen tablet computers and 3D television ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Researchers unlock 30 new genes responsible for early onset puberty

University of Minnesota School of Public Health researcher Ellen Demerath, Ph.D., is among an international group of researchers that has identified 30 new genes responsible for determining the age of sexual maturation in ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Theft of data on 4M patients part of wider problem

The theft of a computer containing information on more than 4 million patients of a major Northern California health care provider may be among the largest breaches of health care data in recent years, but it's far from ...

Technology / Other

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Locally owned small businesses pack powerful economic punch

Thinking small and local, not big and global, may help communities ignite long-term economic growth, according to Penn State economists.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Microsoft 'vault ' open for dying Google Health records

Microsoft on Monday offered its HealthVault as a new care center for digitized medical records kept at Google's dying Health service.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Revolution is at hand' for breakthroughs in medicine

Someday soon, thanks to advances in medicine, a surgeon will operate on a patient who is not in the same room, but thousands of miles away.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Alaska ranks No. 1 for chlamydia

Alaska again ranks first in the nation for chlamydia and is second for gonorrhea, state public health officials announced Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Parents trust doctors most when it comes to information about vaccine safety

Most parents get their information about vaccines from their children's doctors, but some also consider public health officials, other parents, friends and family members and even celebrities as sources of vaccine information.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers: Sexually active teens need confidential health care

After reviewing existing research regarding the common practices of health care providers who see adolescent patients across the country, Rebecca Allen, MD, MPH, a clinician and researcher at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gaps in health care limit options for older adults, expert says

There are 50 million family members providing care to older adults in the United States, according to the MetLife Foundation and national caregiving associations. When older adults are hospitalized and discharged, their families ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic medical records improve quality of care in resource-limited countries

A new study, conducted by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University, is one of the first to explore and demonstrate the impact of electronic record systems ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

To increase physical activity, focus on how, not why

Most people know that exercise is important to maintain and improve health; however, sedentary lifestyles and obesity rates are at all-time highs and have become major national issues. In a new study, University of Missouri ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NHGRI charts course for the next phase of genomics research

A new strategic plan from an arm of the National Institutes of Health envisions scientists being able to identify genetic bases of most single-gene disorders and gaining new insights into multi-gene disorders in the next ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0