http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In the United States, older patients with advanced lung cancer make much less use of hospital and emergency room services at the end of life than their counterparts in Ontario but use far more chemotherapy, according to a study published May 18th online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-life-cancer-patients-differs-canada.html Health Wed, 18 May 2011 17:31:36 EST news224958674 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