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Joslin upgrades its website to raise awareness about diabetes in Latino population

Latinos are twice as likely to develop diabetes as Caucasians, and half the Latinos born in the United States in this century are expected to get the disease. Helping to meet this challenge, Joslin Diabetes Center's Latino Diabetes Initiative—a comprehensive effort that combines clinical care, patient education, community outreach, research and healthcare team education—has upgraded its website with additional resources for Latinos with diabetes and their families in both English and Spanish.

15 Feb 2011

Electronic medical records in the age of government controlled internet ‘kill switches’

Egypt’s crisis has raised alarms about national security and economic impact for Americans if regime change leads to an anti-US government controlling a strong ally in the Middle East. This crisis raises another more personal concern for Americans that has been overlooked by the national media: the security and availability of your electronic medical records in the event of a government-imposed “kill switch” for the Internet.

15 Feb 2011

Med DataCare Pro and home-based billers join to create healthcare professional network

Med DataCare Pro, a healthcare service provider based in Dallas since 1999, now joins hands with home-based billers to create a network of healthcare professionals at a national level for the mutual benefit of home-based billers, physicians and Med DataCare Pro.

14 Feb 2011

Free, confidential home-kit testing for sexually transmitted infections effective with young people

Infectious disease experts at Johns Hopkins say new research clearly shows that screening teens and young adults for sexually transmitted infections may best be achieved by making free, confidential home-kit testing available over the Internet. From a public health standpoint, the project is a clear winner, the experts say.

14 Feb 2011

BioSan announces precautionary voluntary recall over undeclared soy in Essentials, RightFoods products

BioSan Laboratories announced today a recall of products in its Essentials™ and RightFoods™ lines because they may contain undeclared soy. BioSan Laboratories has not received any reports of adverse or allergic reactions to these products. Although the levels of soy are low, people with soy allergies risk an allergic reaction if they consume these products.

10 Feb 2011

New low-cost Medicare Supplement insurance policy is now available for Georgia seniors

A new low-cost Medicare Supplement insurance policy is now approved for sale to seniors in Georgia. The Georgia Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commission has approved a very low-cost Medicare Supplement insurance plan for seniors and Georgia is among the first states in the nation to allow this supplemental insurance plan to be offered to its citizens.

10 Feb 2011

Humana Military introduces new website for mobile phones and tablets

Humana Military Healthcare Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Humana Inc., announces the launch of the mobile Humana Military website for mobile phones and tablets.

9 Feb 2011

Researchers find large variations in quality and safety across diabetes websites

Nearly one-half of U.S. adults who use the Internet participate in social networks. While these increasingly include health-focused networks, not much is known about their quality and safety. In one of the first formal studies of social networking websites targeting patients, researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program performed an in-depth evaluation of ten diabetes websites.

9 Feb 2011

Medical Web Technologies receives US patent for One Medical Passport solution

Medical Web Technologies, LLC today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,865,373 entitled, "Method and Apparatus for Sharing Healthcare Data."

9 Feb 2011

Women more attracted to men when not sure about his feelings

Are you still looking for a date for Valentine's Day? Here's some dating advice straight from the laboratory: It turns out there may be something to "playing hard to get." A study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her.

8 Feb 2011

Study reveals Facebook users may face risk of developing eating disorders

The same has been found with regard to exposure to music and fashion on the Internet, and to harmful programs on TV. The study also reveals that the risk of developing eating disorders in adolescent girls is moderated when there is more parental supervision over viewing habits.

8 Feb 2011

Personalized feedback can serve as effective tool for people with addictive behaviors

As mental health care costs and problem gambling rates continue to rise, University of Missouri researchers are developing a personalized feedback tool that could serve as an effective and inexpensive way for people with addictive behavior-related problems to get the help they need.

7 Feb 2011

EUREKA funds technical project to assist senior citizens

Massive Art Multimedia in Austria and CoSi Elektronik in Germany have a history of collaboration on successful technical projects. A brainstorming session between their developers produced the idea of bringing together many aspects of the modern computing world and applying them specifically to the one group in society that is least likely to already feel those benefits - senior citizens.

4 Feb 2011

Boston-based Research 2.0 begins Viral Genetics coverage, publishes initial report

Boston-based Research 2.0 initiated coverage of Viral Genetics, Inc, and published their initial report today. The report is available on the company's website at www.viralgenetics.com/investors/press-releases/R20Report and is also distributed over the internet and through institutional platforms including FactSet, CapitalIQ, and TheMarkets.com.

2 Feb 2011

Loyola opens Comprehensive Diabetes Care Clinic in Hickory Hills

Untreated or poorly managed diabetes can cause severe health complications such as kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke and nerve damage. To help diabetic patients more easily care for their condition, Loyola has opened the Comprehensive Diabetes Care Clinic at Loyola Center for Health at Hickory Hills.

1 Feb 2011

French guy says Parkinson’s drug induced gambling and gay sex addiction, tries to sue GSK for $610,000

GlaxoSmithKline is being sued this week by a French father-of-two, alleging the British pharmaceutical firm’s drug – Reqip (Ropirnirole) to treat Parkinson’s disease turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict. Parkinson’s disease is a seriously and progressively debilitating disease that leads to tremors, slowing of movements and ultimately total immobility.

1 Feb 2011

Best Practices report: 50% of participating companies fail collect AE reports from Internet sources

Drug safety remains front and center for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the agency strives to improve the public's perception of the organization. Likewise, the pharmaceutical industry is focused on improving its reputation among consumers and recognizes that its diligence in the reporting of adverse events plays an important role in that effort.

29 Jan 2011

FWC selects athenahealth's EHR service to provide high-quality care

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of web-based practice management, electronic health record, and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that Florida Woman Care, one of the largest OB/GYN medical groups in Florida, has selected athenahealth's EHR service, athenaClinicals, to provide to its network of 170 physicians a fully scalable, and cost-effective way to share health information, ultimately bringing efficiencies to FWC's workflow and improving its ability to deliver coordinated, high-quality care.

29 Jan 2011

APS calls for bipartisan support for greater investment in scientific research

The American Physical Society (APS), the nation's largest organization of physicists, takes special note of President Obama's speech last night that increasing scientific research and innovation and improving education are crucial to our nation's long-term economic growth.

28 Jan 2011

Effective fusion of consumer technology and front line medicine needed

Government spending cuts and the high cost of distributed healthcare provision could mean a major shift toward home-based patient care. Lack of resource, increased travel time and an aging population is leading some to consider a more viable alternative. However, limited broadband Internet access in remote areas means that joined up policy changes are needed to ensure an effective solution is achieved.

28 Jan 2011

Internet News and Research

Joslin upgrades its website to raise awareness about diabetes in Latino population

Electronic medical records in the age of government controlled internet ‘kill switches’

Med DataCare Pro and home-based billers join to create healthcare professional network

Free, confidential home-kit testing for sexually transmitted infections effective with young people

BioSan announces precautionary voluntary recall over undeclared soy in Essentials, RightFoods products

New low-cost Medicare Supplement insurance policy is now available for Georgia seniors

Humana Military introduces new website for mobile phones and tablets

Researchers find large variations in quality and safety across diabetes websites

Medical Web Technologies receives US patent for One Medical Passport solution

Women more attracted to men when not sure about his feelings

Study reveals Facebook users may face risk of developing eating disorders

Personalized feedback can serve as effective tool for people with addictive behaviors

EUREKA funds technical project to assist senior citizens

Boston-based Research 2.0 begins Viral Genetics coverage, publishes initial report

Loyola opens Comprehensive Diabetes Care Clinic in Hickory Hills

French guy says Parkinson’s drug induced gambling and gay sex addiction, tries to sue GSK for $610,000

Best Practices report: 50% of participating companies fail collect AE reports from Internet sources

FWC selects athenahealth's EHR service to provide high-quality care

APS calls for bipartisan support for greater investment in scientific research

Effective fusion of consumer technology and front line medicine needed

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