http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world. Because search data allows the capture of disease-related queries in near real time, it could help public health officials in the more than 100 countries affected by dengue respond more quickly to nascent epidemics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-web-dengue.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 May 2011 10:43:15 EST news226057376 If the United States follows the pattern that occurred after the economic crisis in Japan, public health officials should watch for a significant increase in suicides, particularly in the baby boom population, concluded a study scheduled for presentation at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-economic-distress-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 18 May 2011 12:35:49 EST news224940933 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