Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/it/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124511.php NHS Connecting for Health, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) have published joint advice for all pharmacies in England. At a time when over 80% of pharmacies have upgraded to Release 1 of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), it is important that its use is maximised. Pharmacy / Pharmacist Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124228.php Computer-aided detection software for mammograms is nearly as effective as a second radiologist reading the test results to determine the presence of breast tumors, according to a study published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, IT / Internet / E-mail Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124248.php Revolution Health Network plans to announce on Friday that it has merged with Waterfront Media to create a network of health Web sites that will compete with the industry's leader, WebMD, the IT / Internet / E-mail Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124266.php Using computer models and live cell experiments, biomedical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered more than 100 human protein fragments that can slow or stop the growth of cells that make up new blood vessels. Cancer / Oncology Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124269.php New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and its institutional partners - Stanford University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley - have each received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the "learning algorithm of the brain." The four-year, $2 million project seeks to develop new computational models of how the visual system learns to recognize objects. IT / Internet / E-mail Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124116.php Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences. Mathematicians at Liverpool, working with physicists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Universite have found that coastal defences could be made 'invisible' when water is guided through a special structure called metamaterial. Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124104.php Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper* by researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) takes it to a cellular level. Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them. Medical Devices / Diagnostics Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123644.php The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces funding for the new NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program. Epigenetic processes control normal growth and development, and epigenomics is a study of epigenetic processes at a genome-wide scale. The NIH will invest more than $190 million over the next five years to accelerate this emerging field of biomedical research. The first grants will total approximately $18 million in 2008. Genetics Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124057.php Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is one of only seven children's hospitals in the nation to have been selected as a 2008 Top Hospital by a national organization that evaluates patient safety at more than 1,220 participating hospitals. Children's Hospital's recognition was based on the results of the 2008 , which is the nation's premier hospital patient safety evaluatioLeapfrog Hospital Surveyn tool. Pediatrics / Children's Health Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124055.php Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science receives a six-year $13.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue research and educational activities in its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Medical Devices / Diagnostics Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124051.php The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, founded at UC San Diego in 2006 as one of six National Science Foundation Science of Learning Centers, has just been awarded an additional $12 million for the next three years to expand its important work studying the role of time and timing in learning. IT / Internet / E-mail Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123640.php Researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT have announced that they have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to map the epigenomes of a variety of medically important cell types, including human embryonic stem cells. Genetics Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124150.php Blogs allow African Americans to discuss HIV and AIDS in an unfiltered way that is both public and private, according to a Penn State researcher, and this exploration may lead to another way to distribute health messages to the African American community. Lynette Kvasny, associate professor of information sciences and technology (IST), an avid blog reader, noticed an interesting conversation on a blog following an August 2006 ABC News story, "Out of Control: AIDS in Black America. HIV / AIDS Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124159.php A new study in the Journal of School Health reveals that cyberbullying is common among teens who are frequent internet users, with 72 percent of respondents reporting at least one incident during the past year. Online bullying was associated with increased distress, as well as with in-school bullying, with 85 percent of respondents who reported at least one online incident also reporting being bullied in school. IT / Internet / E-mail Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124133.php The internet is emerging as a valuable tool for scientists to gather data for critical research into rare diseases. Disability researcher, Dr Helen Leonard, from Australia's Institute for Child Health Research, said its InterRett online database had greatly expanded research into the neurological disorder Rett syndrome, which affects 1 in 8500 girls. IT / Internet / E-mail Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124135.php Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students, Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts, have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth's history, the pterodactyl, to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation capabilities. Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124119.php MyCareTeam, Inc., a leading vendor of Internet-based diabetes management software, has announced the release of the newest version of its flagship diabetes management software, MCT-Diabetes. In addition to tracking glucose readings, MCT-Diabetes now allows the user to track and store meals in a "Meal Log", build an "Insulin Log" and use "TotalView", a state-of-the-art charting tool. Diabetes Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124124.php The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the selection of ten contractors to receive up to a total of $2.5 billion for information technology (IT) and data center management services over the next ten years. The contract is the cornerstone of the FDA's Information Technology for the 21st Century (ICT21) bioinformatics initiative, an extensive IT modernization program encompassing data management, data warehousing, IT infrastructure and IT security. IT / Internet / E-mail Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124044.php Comparing such diverse networks as the Internet and the human cell, Albert-László Barabási explains the mathematical foundation behind what he calls "the highly interconnected web of life." Barabási will give a lecture titled "Network Science: From the Web to Human Diseases" at the University of Houston. IT / Internet / E-mail Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124010.php Robert Weiss, M.D., board certified dermatologist, is among the first physicians in the U.S. to offer his patients DOT Therapy (Dermal Optical Thermolysis), the latest, state-of-the-art procedure in laser skin resurfacing. Dr. Weiss is an internationally renowned dermatologist, who is in private practice in Hunt Valley, Md. and is also Director, Maryland Laser, Skin and Vein Institute. According to Dr. Dermatology Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/124022.php Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the fields of allergy and critical care, today announced the start of a further phase II clinical study of its ToleroMune(R) technology in the field of cat allergy. The trial builds on positive results achieved in an earlier phase II study, which demonstrated the potential clinical benefits of the ToleroMune approach to allergy desensitization. Allergy Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123907.php California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Tuesday vetoed legislation (AB 1945) that would have prohibited health plans from rescinding health insurance policies unless they could prove that consumers intentionally misrepresented information on their applications, the Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123949.php Researchers at NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Northwestern University have discovered that fiber optic technology can for the very first time effectively measure blood levels in the colonic lining (mucosa) in humans, thus having potential applications for analyzing risk of colon cancer. The study appears in the October 2008 issue of Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Colorectal Cancer Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123961.php The Royal Australian College of General Practitioner (RACGP) is presenting two awards tonight recognising contributions to Australian medical journalism. Dr Vasantha Preetham, outgoing RACGP President, will be presenting the awards tonight at the Academic Session of the Wonca Asia Pacific Regional Conference/RACGP Annual Scientific Convention 2008 in Melbourne. Public Health Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123855.php How a cell achieves the coordinated control of a number of genes at the same time, a process that's necessary for it to regulate its own behavior and development, has long puzzled scientists. Michael Elowitz, an assistant professor of biology and applied physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), along with Long Cai, a postdoctoral research scholar at Caltech, and graduate student Chiraj Dalal, have discovered a surprising answer. Genetics