http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A US doctor has created a website to make it easier for the world's sickest people to connect with research that could potentially save their lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-website-clinical-trials-easy.html Other Thu, 02 May 2013 05:50:01 EST news286690259 Advances in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange are shifting efforts in public health toward greater use of information systems to automate disease surveillance, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute has found that these technologies' capabilities are underutilized by those on the front lines of preventing and reporting infections. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-regenstrief-informatics-tools-underutilized-hospital-acquired.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:27:52 EST news280596466 (Medical Xpress) -- Social media websites are useful in staying in touch with friends and family, but one Kansas State University researcher believes they also may keep you healthy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-healthy-social-media-health-patients.html Health Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:49:11 EST news262511300 Discussion about cardiac arrest on Twitter is common and represents a new opportunity to provide lifesaving information to the public, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The Penn investigators will present two studies (ReSS Abstracts #52 and #53) examining cardiac arrest-information exchange on the social media site today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-twitter.html Cardiology Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:13:39 EST news240329603