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Privacy in the era of EHRs: What's the lab's responsibility?
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The federal government, as well as many in health care, have touted the move to electronic health records (EHR) as key to boosting more coordinated and efficient care. Starting this year, physicians and hospitals can begin cashing in on government incentives for deploying EHRs, and regulators have made it clear that lab data is a critical component. But while both consumer advocates and regulators have ramped up pressure on
providers to maintain the privacy and security of patient health information, at the same time EHRs will ostensibly allow more sharing of information, potentially pulling labs and other providers in two directions. More
Identifying risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer
Medscape Medical News
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Two of the largest studies to date looking at triple-negative breast cancer have found that reproductive factors — specifically, pregnancy and multiple childbirth — and obesity and lack of physical activity increase the risk for the disease. This subtype of breast cancer, which is negative for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2, accounts for 10
percent to 20 percent of all breast cancers.
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Honey pot protocells have potential to become a whole
new class of antiviral drugs
Medical News Today
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of deadly human viruses — think decoys with teeth. The technique offers a new research tool that can be used to study in detail the mechanism by which viruses attack cells, and might even become the basis for a new class of antiviral
drugs.
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Egg allergy and the influenza vaccine — A new perspective
Medscape Allergy & Clinical Immunology
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The American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, & Immunology issued a paper titled Administering Influenza Vaccine to Egg Allergic Recipients in October 2010. The report offered guidance in the administration of influenza vaccine to egg-allergic individuals, concluding that most of these patients can safely be vaccinated. A follow-up practice parameter published in January 2011 provided more information about the quality of the
evidence underpinning recommendations for vaccine administration.
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Toenails may hold clue to lung cancer risk
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Your toenails may hold clues to your risk of developing lung cancer, a new study finds. The results show men with high levels of nicotine in their toenails were about 3.5 times more likely to develop lung cancer than those with lower levels of nicotine, regardless of their smoking histories. The findings suggest the detrimental effects of smoking may be underestimated in studies that use only self-reported smoking history to assess
lung cancer risk, the researchers said.
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Scientist studies the weapons of salmonella
Infection Control Today
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Some of the most dreaded diseases in the world such as plague, typhoid and cholera are caused by bacteria that have one thing in common: they possess an infection apparatus which is a nearly unbeatable weapon. When attacking a cell of the body, they develop numerous hollow-needle-shaped structures that project from the bacterial surface. Through these needles, the bacteria inject signal substances into the host cells, which
reprogram the latter and thereby overcome their defense.
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Reprogrammed stem cells are rife with mutations
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Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells harbor a number of genetic mutations, some of which appear in genes that have been linked to cancer. While scientists don't yet know how this
might affect the use of the cells in medicine, they say the findings show that the cells need to be studied much more extensively.
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Scientists use stem cells, skin cells to create brain cells
lost to Alzheimer's
HealthDay News via Bloomberg Businessweek
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In what experts are calling a significant step forward in Alzheimer's research, scientists have for the first time turned human embryonic stem cells and a form of human skin cell into a type of brain cell that's lost to Alzheimer's disease. The disease-induced destruction of these cells, which are called "basal forebrain cholinergic" (BFC) neurons, is key to
the progression of Alzheimer's. Their death, say researchers, leads to memory-retrieval problems, one of the most disabling aspects of the illness. Similarly, BFC loss also impairs spatial learning.
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