http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. It is important for health care providers to report health issues, such as influenza outbreaks, to public health authorities. But there is evidence of a reluctance to share patient data for public health purposes due to concerns for both patient privacy and provider confidentiality. Dr. Khaled El-Emam and his research team at the CHEO Research Institute have developed a secure protocol and system that would solve this problem. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cheo-protocol-disclosure.html Other Tue, 17 May 2011 11:11:28 EST news224849450 Administering both the pneumococcal and the herpes zoster vaccines to patients during the same visit is beneficial and does not appear to compromise the protective effect of the zoster vaccine, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the journal Vaccine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-effectiveness-pneumococcal-shingles-vaccines.html Medications Thu, 12 May 2011 05:08:55 EST news224395711