Put medical history on table, officials say
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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
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses a gathering regarding electronic medical records at the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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Consumers may soon have more information to help them select a doctor when they need an operation or other serious medical procedure.
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Summaries for Patients are a service provided by Annals to help patients better understand the complicated and often mystifying language of modern medicine.
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Privacy advocates obtain records showing that people pulled aside for extra screening during international travel may have detailed records, including reason for travel, race and reading material, stored by the government for years.
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Computerization of health care record keeping remains both a need and a challenge, said IT and health care dignitaries at an IBM-sponsored conference in San Jose, Calif. on Monday.
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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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At family gatherings, talk of the latest ailments is a dinnertime staple. Federal health officials want Americans to take that a bit further over the Thanksgiving weekend and serve
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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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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Five big U.S. employers launched a computerized health record system for employees on Wednesday that they hope will help set a standard for America's messy health care system, and save money and lives.
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HERNDON, Va., March 2  /PRNewswire/ -- The federal government's American Health Information Community is providing funds and encouraging private industry to participate in the government's increasing use of electronic records and systems for the creation, storage and sharing of health information.
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Too much personal talk by doctors can be bad medicine, according to a study published on Monday in which U.S. researchers sent actors posing as new patients to see doctors in secretly recorded visits.
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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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Many doctors prescribe medicine without providing detailed information about it to patients, a new study suggests.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians, both living and dead, is missing or might have been stolen. The information was stored on a portable hard drive that was being used by a VA employee at the department's facility in Birmingham, Ala.