http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, suggests research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-outpatient-electronic-dont-common.html Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:39:00 EST news228627504 The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has chosen Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to create an innovative, Internet-accessible database of millions of cancer images. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-online-archive-link-tumor-scans.html Cancer Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:04:39 EST news228125041 Patients who received poorly co-ordinated care or were unable to afford basic medical costs were much more likely to report medication, treatment or care errors, according to an international study published in the July issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-poorly-drug-medical-errors-countries.html Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:05:39 EST news227786617 Accurate, safe prescribing information for children is often unavailable to doctors in Canada because pharmaceutical companies will not disclose information to Health Canada, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-safe-children-canada-hard.html Medications Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:02 EST news227188781 Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital readmissions, the Affordable Care Act proposes a number of initiatives to improve care and health outcomes and reduce costs for the growing population of chronically ill people in the U.S. While transitional care is a central theme in these provisions, there is little information available to guide those responsible for implementing these important opportunities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-revolving-door-hospital-re-admissions.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:28:19 EST news226146487 Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday). Dr. Debby Hellebrekers, from Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, said that the scientists' findings could have a considerable effect on preventing the transmission of mitochondrial diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-pgd-birth-healthy-children-women.html Genetics Mon, 30 May 2011 07:58:27 EST news225961096 Children with inborn errors of metabolism received vaccines on the same immunization schedule as did healthy infants, according to Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center scientists who examined the Kaiser Permanente Northern California population. In addition, immunization was not associated with significant increases in emergency room visits or hospitalizations during the month following vaccination, according to Nicola Klein, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-immunization-linked-hospitalization-children-inherited.html Other Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:47:47 EST news221712453