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Joint Commission Working on Breast Cancer Care Quality Measures
The Joint Commission's Division of Quality Measurement and Research has been contracted to complete a portion of a...
Native Americans Four Times More Vulnerable to H1N1 Death, Says CDC
Hospitalizations and deaths from the H1N1 virus this year are much higher among Native Americans and Alaska Natives...
Weak Link Between Family Health Histories, Chronic Conditions
A National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science consensus panel this week found that it is unclear how family...
University of Miami medical school gets $20 million gift to fight autism
Geneticists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine say a $20 million philanthropic gift will bring them a...
Doctors unaware of many drug approval uses
Some physicians erroneously think certain off-label uses of prescription drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug...
Telemedicine leads to better stroke treatment decisions
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center say that a study of a telemedicine program which...
Carnegie Mellon University computer program reads human mind
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh are training a computer to decode the human mind. Their computer...
Researchers to examine video games and health
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced it will give a dozen research teams up to $200,000 each for projects...
Mayo Clinic and IBM establish medical imaging research center
Mayo Clinic and IBM have created the Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center, a collaborative research facility...
Saliva tests used to detect cancers of the head and neck
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore are developing a saliva test that could spot diseases...