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Tag: "informatics" at medical news

Computerized Doctors Order Reduce Prescription Errors

...ratch, said Karl Gumpper, director of the pharmacy informatics and technology section of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, based in Bethesda, Md. Pharmacists frequently have to call the prescribing doctor or interview the patient because of problems in deciphering handwriting. Currently, only ...

Scientists Developing 'intelligent Clothes' to Monitor Wearer's Health

...group of the British Computer Society dealing with informatics and telemedicine, said lower grade information which identified trends, rather than absolutes, was likely to be useful in areas such as monitoring sporting performance, but could not necessarily be used to inform important medical decisions....

Graphics- Helps Bridge Gaps in Patients’ Understanding of Medical Condition

...r, a Ph.D. student in the department of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical Center is developing tools, which she calls as the'100-person diagram.' Designed to help patients understand the nuances of medical diagnoses and treatment options, these tools will equip them to appreciate the risks an...

A Human Brain Gene Could Hold Clues On The Evolution Of Brain Capacity

...volutionary changes. This computer-intensive bio informatics approach produced a list of the most rapidly evolving regions of the human genome, and subsequent work focused on the top hit, a region called HAR1. Salama, a HHMI research biologist, led the "wet lab" investigations, using the laboratory techniques ...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...ons with other animals and the latest computerized informatics research. Qun-Yong Zhou, assistant professor of pharmacology, and his colleagues found that the prokineticin proteins controlled movement of muscles in the intestines of guinea pigs. These muscles regulate the movement of food through the digestive...

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