Jan 14, 2009
The Health and Human Services Department has released an updated, standards-compliant version of a Web-based family history heath tool that can feed information into electronic health records.
The new version of the Surgeon General’s My Family Health Portrait will make it easier for consumers to create and share family health history information, HHS said. The first version of the tool, released in 2004, was not based on standards.
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January 06, 2009 11:04 pm
Health-care professionals across the region are taking steps to bolster that relationship, with an upcoming pilot program aimed at improving access to primary care while lowering the costs of services associated with that care.
One of the most important relationships a person can develop is with a qualified and dedicated health-care professional. Having a certain level of comfort with your family doctor or with your Read the rest of this entry »

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Kennedy Stricken at Obama Lunch, Rushed to Hospital (Update3)
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) — Senator
, who has been
ill with brain cancer, was rushed to a hospital after suffering a
seizure during a lawmakers’ lunch with President
in
the Capitol following the new president’s inauguration.
“After testing, we believe the incident was brought on by
simple fatigue,” Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at
Washington Hospital Center, said in Read the rest of this entry »

Backed by both presidential candidates, Silicon Valley tech giants and other companies are leading an effort to create electronic health records containing data about your most intimate health conditions — from your bunions and bad back to your chronic hemorrhoids and psychiatric history — so the information can be easily shared with doctors, insurers and others.
Proponents of electronic health records believe they can dramatically cut Read the rest of this entry »

said Monday the Food and Drug Administration requested more information about the controlled-release form of the company’s Vicodin painkiller.
The drug maker said the FDA sent a “complete response letter,” which the company will discuss with the agency. The FDA sends complete-response letters when it wants more data before deciding whether it will approve or reject a drug candidate.
The company had expected the drug to be approved in the fourth Read the rest of this entry »

At New York-Presbyterian Hospital, drug suspect gives cop the slip
Monday, February 16th 2009, 2:20 AM
A major city hospital went into lockdown Sunday when a drug suspect gave cops the slip by climbing up into the ceiling.
, 36, had been busted on drug and larceny charges by Port Authority police the night before and was being evaluated at
when he was permitted to use a men’s room just before noon, officials said.
That’s when he made his Read the rest of this entry »

Eileen and Robert Korjenek wish Santa Clara County voters could understand what they now know all too well: that critical care is something you never know you need until you’re waiting desperately outside emergency-room doors.
The Gilroy couple, whose 22-year-old son suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 1995 car accident, are among the fiercest supporters of Measure A on the county ballot this November.
If approved by two-thirds of voters, the Read the rest of this entry »

New Jersey’s Public Health Council stopped complaining last year about parents who don’t vaccinate their children and took action. Now, New Jersey is the first state in the nation to require a flu shot for all children before they enroll in preschools and daycare centers.
The compulsory vaccination for preschoolers is intended to promote public health, a move based on a recommendation from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Read the rest of this entry »

Published: October 4, 2008
TAMPA – Feeling nickel-and-dimed to death at the grocery store?
Wait until you start getting hammered with hospital bills a decade from now, thanks to what’s in your shopping cart today.
A steady rise in food prices has pushed consumers to their wits’ end and changed shopping habits. Eating out has been nixed by many who say it’s too expensive. But they can’t avoid the grocery store energy prices is at the heart of Read the rest of this entry »