Medical abbreviations 'pose risk'
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Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting patients' lives at risk.
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The complex nature of drug names can cause prescription errors and be harmful to patients, academics say.
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According to new British study, patients who use the internet to find out information about chronic disease rather than listening to their doctor could be putting their health at risk.
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Many doctors prescribe medicine without providing detailed information about it to patients, a new study suggests.
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WASHINGTON  New warnings on anemia drugs  Federal health officials issued stern new warnings Friday for doctors to more carefully prescribe widely used anemia drugs that can increase the risk of death and other serious problems in patients with cancer and kidney disease.
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Health obsessives will be breaking out in a sweat when they read the latest research: browsing medical websites can be bad for you.
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NEW YORK - As doctors struggle to come to grips with what the withdrawal of Vioxx means for drug safety, the letters pages of the normally sedate New England Journal of Medicine have turned into a battleground.
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Doctors and public health officials must weigh the benefits of knowledge against the risk of alarm.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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Federal health officials on Tuesday proposed sterner warning labels for acetaminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen, again cautioning millions of Americans who take the nonprescription pain relievers regularly of potentially serious side effects.
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Concern is raised about a new service brought in to provide medical cover outside surgery hours.
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This has not been an especially good year for regulatory government agencies, with their accompanying acronyms. Let&#39;s begin with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which can&#39;t quite make up its mind which drug will kill us first - or how quickly.
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Doctors who led three studies  showing prescription painkillers called COX-2 inhibitors raise  the risk of heart attacks and stroke said on Tuesday the whole  class of drugs was in danger of being pulled from the market.
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US heart specialists are avoiding potentially risky procedures because they could affect their mortality rates, research suggests, amid fears the same thing could happen in the UK.
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PATIENTS&#39; safety could be endangered by new European Union rules on health care, doctors&#39; representatives said yesterday. The British Medical Association said they had serious concerns about the impact of
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Concerns raised over senior officers' threat to patient confidentiality.
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According to an advisory published on security firm Secuniaâs website, a critical vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by a malicious code to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user&#39;s system.