Better Info for Informed Consent
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Docs often convey critical medical information in jargon that most people don't understand. Let us know if you've encountered this situation. Should we employ medical translators? In Bodyhack.
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Sometimes, it is only when the patient is halfway out the door that important information spills out.
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Consumer watchdog group Public  Citizen expanded its drug safety Web site worstpills.org on  Wednesday to include more warnings about side effects, drug  interactions and inadequate research.
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Safety problems with Vioxx could have been detected in months rather than years if the Food and Drug Administration had been able to sift through health-care information already compiled privately on one in three Americans.
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Web data that showed a risk for a diabetes drug is likely to spur more efforts to publicly disclose drug study results.
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Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs?
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WASHINGTON - Privacy advocates are concerned that an implantable microchip designed to help doctors tap into a patient's medical records could undermine confidentiality or could even be used to track the patient's movements.   "If privacy protections aren't built in at the outset, there could be harmful consequences for patients," said Emily Stewart, a policy analyst at the Health Privacy Project...
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Given the enormous physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer, one might expect researchers to promote the free and open exchange of information. They donât.
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Few precise details of the product are known although the company has been releasing tidbits of information.
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Getting information from the government under the Freedom of Information Act can take longer than waiting for ketchup to flow from a new bottle. Much longer.
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A new Web site and toll-free phone number unveiled this week should make it easier for patients to find clinical trials for cancer drugs.
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Sometimes it's tough for patients to tell the whole story.
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Don&#39;t be embarrassed to question your doctor about that new prescription he&#39;s written, the National Council on Patient Information and Education advises.
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Patients and parents need more information on cancer risk from topical creams used to treat the skin condition eczema, a U.S. panel of medical experts said on Tuesday.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- New research attempts to help parents sift through one of the most difficult decisions they will ever have to make: Whether to tell their terminally ill child that he or she is dying.
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Online symptoms searches can be useful. They can also give you acute misinformation.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.