June 25th, 2008
Americans worried medical secrets in new databases will be misused Washington, DC Today, lawmakers will be making decisions about the future of patients’ medical...
June 25th, 2008
Hoping to persuade more people to store their medical records online, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and a hodgepodge of health care providers and insurers...
June 5th, 2008
Imagine my surprise when, in the course of doing research for this story, I stumbled upon my own personal health information online.
There it was...
May 27th, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration is developing a new electronic information system to monitor how drugs and other medical products perform once they go...
May 19th, 2008
Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.
The offering raises...
May 15th, 2008
Charter Communications is planning to monitor its customers’ Web surfing and then, anonymously, display relevant advertisements.
What the third-largest U.S. cable operator, headquartered in St....
May 2nd, 2008
St. Jude Medical and Microsoft collaborate to provide patients and physicians with better access to health records.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — St. Jude Medical, Inc....
April 18th, 2008
In September 2004, Merck & Co. pulled its widely prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx off the market. The Food and Drug Administration followed with the...
April 18th, 2008
The Web search giant’s investment in Navigenics is further proof it wants an early stake in direct-to-consumer genetic screening.
Your DNA falls into the realm...
April 10th, 2008
The Alaska House of Representatives voted 23-16 Wednesday to pass a senate bill creating a prescription drug database in Alaska despite objections that it...
