Sentences with phrase «health and medicines information»

Gray completed a PhD in Health Information Sources before receiving a a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund, an opportunity she used to conduct a trans - Atlantic study on the use of Internet resources by adolescents for health and medicines information.

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But somewhat lost in all of this business wheeling and dealing is the fact that the balance of power in medicine is shifting: Armed with their body's own endless stream of signals and a smartphone, many individuals are getting the information they need to take charge of their health and wellbeing — or, in the case of Theresa Beech, whose 13 - year - old son was lost to cancer two years ago, to help total strangers search for a long - elusive cure.

The programs were designed to bring together professionals and materials in psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, medicine, and sociology and to relate mental health information to the theology of the three major religious traditions.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

Access to health care also includes access to preventative medicine which involves providing information to patients about nutrition, how to develop healthy eating habits, how to exercise properly and how often, how to break unhealthy habits like smoking, etc..

(Information gathered from the CDC; Human Milk Bank Association of North America; Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol # 8 Human Milk Storage Information for Home Use for Full - Term Infants.)

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwihealth, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and MidwiHealth, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwihealth, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwihealth, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and MidwiHealth (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwihealth economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwihealth economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwihealth, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Caregiver duties and responsibilities can include: Assisting with personal care: bathing and grooming, dressing, toileting, and exercise Basic food preparation: preparing meals, shopping, housekeeping, laundry, and other errands General health care: overseeing medication and prescriptions usage, appointment reminders and administering medicine Mobility assistance: help with getting in and out of a wheelchair, car or shower Personal supervision: providing constant companionship and general supervision Transportation: driving to and from activities, running errands, and help getting in and out of wheelchair - accessible vehicle Emotional support: being a stable companion and supporter in all matters personal, health - related and emotional Care for the elderly: orienting or grounding someone with Alzheimer s disease or dementia, relaying information from a doctor to family members Back - up care (or respite) services: providing other caregivers a break Home organization: help with organizing

The publication of this information does not constitute the practice of medicine or psychology, and this information does not replace the advice of your physician or mental health care provider.

The US National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) maintains LactMed ®, a database containing information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.

Share with your care providers information about your or your child's health, such as a complete health history, symptoms, treatments, medicines taken and any other information that could bear on your or your child's health.

And for even more information on a monthly basis, visit «Arts and Health» on Psychology Today — contemporary, leading - edge articles on creative arts in psychotherapy and integrative mediciAnd for even more information on a monthly basis, visit «Arts and Health» on Psychology Today — contemporary, leading - edge articles on creative arts in psychotherapy and integrative mediciand Health» on Psychology Today — contemporary, leading - edge articles on creative arts in psychotherapy and integrative mediciand integrative medicine.

Help protect our water and your safety by disposing of medicines properly through collection and incineration.Please visit the Erie County Department of Health website for information about proper disposal.

«Our future in medicine and in health depends on understanding the information contained in the human genome, so it's a great topic for Science Week,» said Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

The essays represent a wide range of scientific topics: neuroscience, biology, «Big Data», forensic anthropology, science policy, STEM education, wildlife ecology, environmental sustainability, sociology, medicine, global health, science ethics, stem cell research, materials engineering, crowd - sourcing, computer science, biotechnology, genetics, agricultural sciences, climate change, and information technology.

Additionally, the agency would continue efforts to advance precision medicine and cancer genomics in support of the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to collect blood samples and health information from one million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect health.

The researchers found that many data sources do not include information on potential risk factors that affect health outcomes, such as use of illicit substances, use of over-the-counter medicines, smoking, and actual adherence to the medication.

Her study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, analyzed data from the Nurses» Health Study Cognitive Cohort, which included almost 20,000 women ages 70 to 81, and used geographic information and air - monitoring data to estimate pollution exposure.

«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

«Bioinformatics Instruction & Consultation, Collaboration, Evaluation» [PDF, 2.38 MB] Kristi L. Holmes, Ph.D., Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis «Community Engagement: Lost in Translation» [PDF, 2.1 MB] Layne Johnson, Ph.D., Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota «Supporting Clinical Research» [PDF, 785 KB] Jennifer A. Lyon, M.S., MLIS, Biomedical and Health Information Services, University of Florida «Library - based Support for Translational Medicine» [PDF, 403 KB] Michele R. Tennant, Ph.D., MLIS, Biomedical and Health Information Services, University of Florida

«This research shows how technology can be used to dramatically change the way preventive services are delivered and improve preventative health care,» says senior author Grant M. Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., assistant professor and associate chair for information management and quality at the Department of Family Medicine at the U-M Medical School and member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

In a Perspective piece published in the May 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the Penn authors — David Asch, MD, MBA, professor of Medicine and executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation; Christian Terwiesch, PhD, professor of Operations and Information Management at Wharton; Kevin B. Mahoney, chief administrative officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; and Roy Rosin, chief innovation officer for Penn Medicine — argue that too often organizations look to external consultants to create health care cHealth Care Innovation; Christian Terwiesch, PhD, professor of Operations and Information Management at Wharton; Kevin B. Mahoney, chief administrative officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; and Roy Rosin, chief innovation officer for Penn Medicine — argue that too often organizations look to external consultants to create health care cHealth System; and Roy Rosin, chief innovation officer for Penn Medicine — argue that too often organizations look to external consultants to create health care chealth care change.

In a commentary piece published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University's Alex John London and the University of Pittsburgh's Yael Schenker question the impact of health information that is available online, specifically hospital advertisements.

«There have been studies into the benefits of breastfeeding on other diseases, but there is little information about benefits of breastfeeding linked to liver disease,» explained lead investigator Oyekoya T. Ayonrinde, MBBS, of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

«Twitter is a compendium of who we are,» said H. Andrew Schwartz, PhD, a visiting assistant professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine's Social Media and Health Innovation Lab.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

Given the slow growth of prostate cancer development, this investigation offers novel and important information to physicians, patients and the general public,» said lead author Jacques Baillargeon, UTMB professor of epidemiology in the department of preventative medicine and community health.

The commission took a stab at these complicated questions, issuing new analysis and recommendations for how to manage these increasingly complex issues in medicine, research and with direct - to - consumer tests that allow a patient to send in a cheek swab and get health information (like the personalized genome services kit offered by 23andMe, that was recently blocked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

Erin Zimny, M.D., a Henry Ford Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care physician and a study co-author, attributes the misunderstanding to health care practitioners routinely asking patients for their emergency contact information without explaining what that information really is and means.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Mmedicine at the NYU School of MedicineMedicine.

Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences Chair Elect: Carolyn W. Gibson, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine; Gary Armitage, Univ. of California, San Francisco Member - at - Large of the Section Committee: Kenneth Yamada, National Institutes of Health; Richard Lamont, Univ. of Florida Electorate Nominating Committee: Dennis Mangan, Univ. of Southern California; Anne George, Northwestern Univ.; Mina Mina, Univ. of Connecticut Health Center; Mark Lingen, Univ. of Chicago Industrial Science and Technology Chair Elect: Nominees to be announcedMember - at - Large of the Section Committee: Nominees to be announced Electorate Nominating Committee: Nominees to be announced Information, Computing, and CommunicationChair Elect: Vinton Cerf, Google; Lewis Branscomb, Harvard Univ..

«Current treatment guidelines emphasize interventions that reduce short - term mortality, but with little information on strategies to minimize physical disability, cognitive impairment or health deterioration after sepsis,» said senior author Derek Angus, M.D., M.P.H., the Dr. Mitchell P. Fink Professor and chair of Pitt's Department of Critical Care Medicine.

Koopman's study, «Physician Information Needs and Electronic Health Records: Time to Reengineer the Clinic Note,» was published by the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine and was funded by Mizzou Advantage, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems.

We will have the computational tools to connect all this information so we can gain enormous insights into health and disease and fashion an unbelievably predictive medicine of the future.

In a report published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine on Feb. 21, 2014, the experts say studies have long shown that fragmented care, incomplete information «handoffs» and poor planning among community - based and home caregivers jeopardize health and safety.

To help provide accurate estimates of long - term risks, a team led by Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, studied information on 133,824 living kidney donors from 1987 to 2015, as reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

«PROBIT, the largest randomized trial ever carried out in the area of human lactation, continues to yield scientifically and clinically important information more than two decades after its inception,» says Dr. Michael Kramer, from McGill's Faculty of Medicine and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC), the Principal Investigator on the PROBIT study.

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Christian Stohler, dean of the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, said the new center will deploy «digital technology and information science to stretch the boundaries of dental research, relating oral care to overall health care, and putting the «mouth back into the body.»

As interim CIO, Rosenberg integrated the U-M medical school and health system information technology groups, forming Health Information Technology & Services to support all Michigan Medhealth system information technology groups, forming Health Information Technology & Services to support all Michigainformation technology groups, forming Health Information Technology & Services to support all Michigan MedHealth Information Technology & Services to support all MichigaInformation Technology & Services to support all Michigan Medicine.

Developed in collaboration with the Laboratory Medicine, Information Technology and Health Science Research departments of Mayo Clinic Geneticist Assistant NGS Interpretative Workbench, is a web - based tool for the control, visualization, interpretation and historical knowledge base of next generation sequencing data targeted at specific genes for the purpose of identifying potentially pathogenic variants associated with specific conditions such as hereditary colon cancer.

He has participated in the Personalized Medicine Workgroup of the Department of Health and Human Services» American Health Information Community Task Force, chaired the CDC's EGAPP Stakeholder's Group and was a member of the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Genetics, Health and Society.

«Our collaboration with Monell will expand the Brain Health Registry to provide information concerning the association of a number of brain diseases, especially Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, with a reduced ability to detect odors,» said Michael W. Weiner, MD, founder and Principal Investigator of the Brain Health Registry, and Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.

She is also deputy editor for the website www.mycancergenome.org, a Vanderbilt initiated, freely available website which aims to provide health care practitioners, patient, and advocates with up - to - date information regarding genetically informed cancer medicine.

Great Lakes Health Connect is a Michigan statewide Health Information Exchange that allows subscribers to connect to Michigan Medicine as well as other hospitals and health systems in the Health Connect is a Michigan statewide Health Information Exchange that allows subscribers to connect to Michigan Medicine as well as other hospitals and health systems in the Health Information Exchange that allows subscribers to connect to Michigan Medicine as well as other hospitals and health systems in the health systems in the state.

The Penn State CTSI connects diverse disciplines including the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the College of Medicine, College of Health and Human Development, College of Nursing, Eberly College of Science, College of Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Institute for CyberScience and the Social Science Research Institute.

At the same time, technological advances have also impacted medicine: personal health information can be captured on smart devices, advanced computing power has made analysis of large amounts of information about individuals possible, and the Internet — especially social media — now makes it easy to communicate health information quickly to large networks of people.

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