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Tue, 2012-04-17 17:45 — mdmcdonald
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Video: Blue Button to Download Your Health Information

Sun, 2012-09-16 01:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

markle.org - September 10, 2012

The blue button puts the power of health information into the hands of patients.

Watch three veterans explain how the VA's Blue Button helps them get safer and better care. See what the blue button download capability can do for you.

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http://vimeo.com/49167824

CRICS 9 eHealth - Reaching Universal Access to Health

Sun, 2012-09-09 23:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                   

The Ninth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information – CRICS9 will be held at the Pan American Health Organization Headquarters, in Washington, DC – USA, during October 22 – 24, 2012.

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Another Yosemite camper dies in hantavirus outbreak

Fri, 2012-09-07 14:15 — Maeryn Obley

cnn.com - September 7th, 2012 - Lisa O'Neill Hill

Construction crews began working on nearby tent cabins in Curry Village not long after Jenna Beck and her family arrived at Yosemite National Park.

Beck had reserved seven nights in one of the park's 91 "signature tent cabins," now at the epicenter of a hantavirus investigation. Eight visitors to the park have contracted hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and three of them have died. Officials on Thursday confirmed that someone who stayed in another part of Yosemite contracted hantavirus.

Yosemite Hantavirus: U.S. Officials Send Warnings To Dozens Of Countries

Thu, 2012-09-06 12:47 — Maeryn Obley

huffingtonpost.com - September 5th, 2012 - Ronnie Cohen

U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service epidemiologist said on Tuesday.

Of the 10,000 people thought to be at risk of contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome from their stays in Yosemite between June and August, some 2,500 live outside the United States, Dr. David Wong told Reuters in an interview.

Wong said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials notified 39 countries over the weekend, most of them in the European Union, that their residents may have been exposed to the deadly virus.

TISP Mitigation Workshop

Thu, 2012-09-06 12:22 — Maeryn Obley

The majority of the workshop series, held in the West Coast, Southeast, Midwest and Northern regions of the nation, will focus on regional, community, and infrastructure resilience challenges associated with impeding a reduction of the impacts caused by disastrous hazards (flooding, tornados and hurricanes, earthquakes, pandemic illness, economic failure, weapons of mass destruction, etc.).

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Booz Allen Hamilton
901 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Near McPherson Square Metro Station

Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny

Thu, 2012-09-06 11:44 — Maeryn Obley

Farm use of antibiotics article cover image (Ellen Weinstein)

Image: Farm use of antibiotics article cover image (Ellen Weinstein)

nytimes.com - September 3rd, 2012 - Sabrina Tavernise

The numbers released quietly by the federal government this year were alarming. A ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts, the most commonly eaten meat on the nation’s dinner tables.

But instead of a learning from a broad national inquiry into a troubling trend, scientists said they were stymied by a lack of the most basic element of research: solid data.

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Search For Parkinson's Genes Turns To Online Social Networking

Thu, 2012-08-23 17:34 — Maeryn Obley

Submitting a DNA sample to social networking company 23andMe entails spitting a saliva sample into a tube like this and sending it in.Image: Submitting a DNA sample to social networking company 23andMe entails spitting a saliva sample into a tube like this and sending it in.

submitted by Luis Kun

npr.org - August 20th, 2012 - Gretchen Cuda-Kroen

There's a growing interest in what our genes say about our health. And in recent years, quite a few companies have sprung up to help us listen with the help of personalized DNA tests.

For a few hundred dollars and a vial of spit, these companies will search your DNA for sequences that predict your physical traits, your response to certain drugs and your risk for any number of diseases.

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West Nile Hits Hard Around Dallas, With Fear of Its Spread

Tue, 2012-08-21 22:31 — Maeryn Obley

The mosquito-borne disease has set off aerial spraying of pesticides, but an online petition has drawn 1,700 signatures asking that it be stopped. (Reuters)

Image: The mosquito-borne disease has set off aerial spraying of pesticides, but an online petition has drawn 1,700 signatures asking that it be stopped. (Reuters)

nytimes.com - August 16th, 2012 - Manny Fernandez and Donald G. McNeil Jr.

An outbreak of West Nile virus has engulfed Dallas County, with nearly 200 cases of human infection and 10 deaths, leading the mayor of Dallas to declare a state of emergency and to authorize the first aerial spraying of a pesticide in the city since 1966.

The high number of infections and deaths from the mosquito-borne disease marks the nation’s worst outbreak of West Nile in a year that has already logged a record number of cases across the country. The virus has become endemic in the United States since the first outbreak in 1999.

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Indiana Says Swine Flu Cases Rise Ten-Fold, Now at 113

Wed, 2012-08-08 18:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

chicagotribune.com - Reuters - by Susan Guyette - August 8, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Swine flu is spreading in Indiana, with human cases rising tenfold in a week, state public health officials said on Wednesday, confirming 113 people are infected and saying they expect to see more.

The total confirmed cases of the Influenza A variant virus that has been transmissible from swine to humans in Indiana jumped from just 11 last week. The cases, which show symptoms of a mild seasonal flu, have been found in 18 counties across the state, state health official said.

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The 'Chemputer' That Could Print Out Any Drug

Fri, 2012-07-27 17:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Chemistry professor Lee Cronin with the 'chemputer' he has adapted from a 3D printer. Photograph: Murdo Macleod

When Lee Cronin learned about the concept of 3D printers, he had a brilliant idea: why not turn such a device into a universal chemistry set that could make its own drugs?

guardian.co.uk - by Tim Adams - July 21, 2012

Professor Lee Cronin is a likably impatient presence, a one-man catalyst. "I just want to get stuff done fast," he says. And: "I am a control freak in rehab." Cronin, 39, is the leader of a world-class team of 45 researchers at Glasgow University, primarily making complex molecules. But that is not the extent of his ambition.

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Lee Cronin - The Cronin Group - University of Glasgow, U.K.
http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/

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