http://medicalwebtimes.com/ Medical Web Times * Bite Size Medical News * Latest Medical News for Medical Professionals on the run ... http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~3/zCT1YY8jR-8/index.html 2012-02-06 08:11:22Well-child visits have changed since you were a kid. Find out what pediatricians will be checking for. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/plans-making-peace-corps-ehr 2012-02-06 07:39:43 The Peace Corps plans to acquire a comprehensive electronic health records system to serve its volunteers stationed in 77 developing countries. The agency wants to develop a proof of concept electronic health record (EHR) and test it in a limited pilot by September and deploy it in fiscal 2013. However, the Peace Corps faces challenges in establishing an EHR that can reach all its volunteer posts. Election Feature Content:  No sticky read morehttp://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=e6adb1659df87606373ccf0eb46fb8f1 2012-02-06 07:24:00In my classes, I often ask my students to wrestle with what I call damned-if-you-do-or-don’t dilemmas, which offer no easy solutions. Every choice would pose certain risks and violate one valued principle or another. We often must choose what we deem to be the “least bad” option, and hope things work out. Research involving the bird-flu virus H5N1 poses an especially knotty dilemma, in which scientists’ commitment to openness and to reducing humanity’s vulnerability to potential health threats collides with broader security concerns. The H5N1 virus normally only infects humans who come into direct contact with infected birds; so far there have been no reported cases of airborne transmission among birds and humans. Of the 583 people known to have been infected with the virus, 344 have died as a result, a mortality rate of 59 percent. To be sure, many other infected people may have recovered without coming to the attention of medical authorities. But in comparison, the infamous flu pandemic of 1918, which killed at least 50 million people worldwide, had a mortality rate of two percent. [More] http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c41c7e7ca98ddbc047b86375af7ca9fc 2012-02-06 07:08:44Coronary plaque and eye plaque are directly related, while oral plaque is a different entity — but all of them can cause problems. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e31997f8e1bfbb59808e80b6724f4a38 2012-02-06 07:08:18Continued obstacles plague the effort to provide a reliable supply of technetium 99m, a radioisotope crucial to identifying heart and kidney disease and assisting in breast cancer surgery. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=dc00648ed0e68682c8be5258b40d88fe 2012-02-06 07:07:49As the published evidence for the source of chronic fatigue syndrome fell apart, a legal melodrama erupted, dismaying and demoralizing patients and many members of the scientific community. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9d41017f205fdb847131571b558b20eb 2012-02-06 07:07:20Perhaps too much emphasis is placed on looking for existing breast cancer when the search should focus on prevention and the possibility of finding a vaccine. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=802a724df56e4545cf3555b24ccfc42a 2012-02-06 07:06:40A drug that scientists had hoped would help prevent breast cancer has a significant side effect. http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/radblog/display/article/113619/2027850?CID=rss 2012-02-06 07:00:00In our bizarre world of getting paid not for what we do but rather why we did it, we often find ourselves holding the bag when a referrer ordered a study that the insurer decided was “inappropriate.”http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/womens-imaging/content/article/113619/2027856?CID=rss 2012-02-06 07:00:00Computer-aided detection system developer VuCOMP Inc. has received FDA premarket approval for its film mammography CAD software.