Health Care Industry Moves Slowly nto the Internet
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- Health Care Industry Moves Slowly nto the Internet
- Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
- Yearslong study of the Amish has given a UM researcher medical …
- Reform needs to ensure access to medical services
- Doctor in NJ hep B case has license suspended
- HARVARD MEDICAL SCHL ADVISER Protect fingers toes if you get …
Health Care Industry Moves Slowly nto the Internet
New York Times
The application of natural language processing — simply understanding human language — to medicine is becoming increasingly important as more patient and research information is moving to digital form instead of paper. But much of that information like doctors’ clinical notes is not in traditional databases. So natural language processing tools developed for medical terms will be crucial for researchers looking for clues to disease patterns and trying to improve decision-support tools for doctors. will put medical research tools into the natural-language project.
Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
The Associated Press
court tosses suit by medical marijuana userBy LEN IWANSKI – 2 days ago HELENA Mont. (AP) — Medical marijuana advocates complained Friday that Montana’s Supreme Court misread the law in ruling that the state’s Medical Marijuana Act does not protect an employee from being fired for using marijuana. The state’s high court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a Kalispell man fired by Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. because of his state-sanctioned use of medical marijuana. Under the Montana law doctors can prescribe marijuana for those suffering from a chronic or debilitating disease. Mike Johnson who initiated the lawsuit tested positive for marijuana in 2006 in a random drug test.
Yearslong study of the Amish has given a UM researcher medical …
Baltimore Sun
They didn’t call ahead – most Amish don’t have telephones. They tracked down Stoltzfus the old-fashioned way: They asked her mother-in-law for the address when they ran into her. There were consent forms to sign nosy medical questions to ask. The pair turned Stoltzfus’ kitchen into a makeshift doctor’s office where nurse Theresa Roomet drew five vials of blood as the 40-year-old mother of six rested her elbow on the lacy tablecloth. What began as one Maryland doctor’s desire to learn more about the genetics of diabetes has more than 15 years later turned into a major medical enterprise with many millions of research dollars findings published in major scientific journals and studies of diseases from obesity to osteoporosis in the ld rder Amish of. In the name of cutting-edge genetic medicine Dr.
Reform needs to ensure access to medical services
Buffalo News
Failure will have ramifications that extend far beyond health care. ur credit crisis and our trade debt explosion and the potential for long-term civil unrest all are linked to the structure of our health care system. New York’s Commonwealth Fund reported that 72 million adults under age 65 had problems paying medical bills or were paying off medical debt in 2007 up from 58 million in 2005. Things are getting much worse today. Health care also represents an unfair “export tax” on U. products and services because this country uniquely tacks the cost of health care for employees and family members directly into companies’ payroll expenses.
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Doctor in NJ hep B case has license suspended
The Associated Press
(AP) — New Jersey regulators have temporarily suspended the medical license of a doctor who health officials suspect is linked to a hepatitis B outbreak. Hepatitis B is transmitted through exposure to infected blood. Parvez Dara’s (pahr-VEHZ’ DAHR’-uhz) patients have been warned to get tested after five cancer patients tested positive for the disease. n Friday the state presented evidence about the conditions at the oncologist’s Toms River office.
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHL ADVISER Protect fingers toes if you get …
Detroit Free Press
com | Detroit Free Press. This even happens when I’m indoors. A friend told me I might have Raynaud’s.
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