News tagged with medical database

Google strikes deal to preserve DNA data online

Concerned that the federal government might not keep funding the world's largest free database of genetic data, Google Inc. has forged a deal with a Mountain View, Calif., startup to keep the information online - and free ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Digital health push woos tech firms, pains doctors

Two years ago, Dr. Gonzalo Venegas decided to bring his medical practice into the Information Age.

Technology / Business

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New markers for allergic disorders thanks to analysis of medical databases

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed new methods for analysing medical databases that can be used to identify diagnostic markers more quickly and to personalise medication for allergic disorders. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers design machine learning technique to improve consumer medical searches

Medical websites provide consumers with more access than ever before to comprehensive health and medical information, but the sites' utility becomes limited if users use unclear or unorthodox language to describe conditions ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Dangers of 'Clubbing Drugs' on the Web

Two University of Hertfordshire academics will release new evidence about the dangers of ‘Spice’ drugs today at the first International Psychonaut Web Mapping Conference in Ancona, Italy.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Doubts cast on credibility of some published clinical trials

Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are considered the 'gold standard' research method for assessing new medical treatments. But research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Trials shows that the design of a r ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study examines reliability of clinical and pathological diagnoses of Barrett's esophagus

In a review of more than 2,000 patients coded for Barrett's esophagus, electronic diagnosis overestimated the prevalence of the disease according to researchers in California. They found that only 61.9 percent of patients ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hackers breach UC Berkeley computer database

(AP) -- University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, putting at risk health and other personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others.

Technology / Internet

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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