Health officials promote initiative on family medical history
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Top US health officials asked families on Monday to use their Thanksgiving gatherings to discuss and record the medical histories of their parents, grandparents and other kin.
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A bowel cancer screening programme is being introduced in a bid to reduce deaths.
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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Within five years, physicians could be able to access patients&#39; records from any hospital or doctors&#39; office in the state under a new ``eHealth&#39;&#39; initiative financed with an infusion
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Six months ago, the death of a 12-year-old Prince George's County boy from untreated dental decay shed a grim spotlight on gaps in federal and state medical assistance programs charged with providing care to 30 million poor children.
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Doctors in Massachusetts would be able to access patients' records from any hospital or clinic in the state by computer under an initiative announced Monday.
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By Donna Borak, Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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U.S. health officials have placed the genetic blueprints of more than 650 flu viruses into a public database, in an attempt to increase flu research and set an example for other nations.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- Problems with documentation of drug responses and child abuse screening and reporting are among the gaps in quality of care for children in California's public mental health clinics, says a University of California, Los Angeles-led study.
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consisting of a hospital and medical office building - will attempt to set an example for healthful living by barring smoking in the area, officials said.
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A plea by doctors' leaders to give greater protection to family GPs will be acted upon, the health minister promises.
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The editors of 11 medical journals, including some of the most prominent ones in the United States, are adopting a policy meant to improve public access to study data, especially
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The US Surgeon General announced recently that it&#39;s as good idea to know your family tree&#39;s health problems. Even though genetic testing is available, the federal government recommends that Americans keep
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(CBS) The surgeon general has declared this Thanksgiving Day the first National Family History Day, to highlight the importance of being aware of health problems that run in the family, reports The Early Show medical correspondent Dr.
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Medical officials are urging families to talk not just turkey this Thanksgiving but also medical history - generations of it - to help identify breast, heart and other problems early enough to prevent them.