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...Department of Health and Human Services. HHS hopes to achieve 50% adoption by 2014, and President Bush has also called for the majority of Americans to have electronic access to such records by that year. Studies consistently show that going digital can reduce health-care costs and help prevent medical mistakes. Each year prescription errors alone kill about 7,000 patients and cost the U.S. health-care system as much as $6 billion. Many of these mistakes could be avoided with electronic records, says Dr. Steve Klasko, vice president of USF Health, an Allscripts customer. Last year Allscripts teamed...
...scientists to criticize Congress and the White House for stifling biomedical research. “The 13-percent loss in real dollars over the last five years is having a cascading impact that is slowing progress and threatening future research that could lead to cures and even ways to prevent disease,” Faust said in her Senate testimony on Tuesday morning. The additional funding represents an 8.4 percent increase over this year’s budget—well above inflation for biomedical research, which was 3.9 percent last year, according to a federal government index. Though...
...school history. Mathematically, the chances of recapturing the title, which Harvard won in 2006, were quite slim. With only 10 qualifiers after regional competition, it would have been nearly impossible to finish above the few teams with 12 fencers, the maximum number allotted per team. That, however, did not prevent some strong individual performances. Sherrill, coming off his first All-American performance with a 10th-place finish last year, found himself in 13th place at the end of the first day. The next day, he came back strong and posted seven victories while increasing his indicator rating from...
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian macaques that helps prevent infection by HIV-like lentiviruses...
...surprise we found with our study was that macaque monkeys from Asia have a different strategy that involved the same two proteins,” O’Neil said. “They make a similar fusion protein that also can prevent certain lentiviruses from affecting their species...