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...March, Google Health said it is teaming with Surescripts, the nation's largest electronic-prescribing network, which connects physicians to major pharmacy chains as well as thousands of independent drugstores--and the insurance plans that cover 65% of U.S. patients. With your consent, your doctor can use this network to pull up your prescription history. Register with Google Health, and you'll be able...
...Google's privacy policy is fine," says Deven McGraw, health-privacy director at the Washington-based Center for Democracy & Technology. "What people who use Google need to be careful of is third-party applications they might sign up for. There is no law prohibiting them from selling your data...
...connect that information to other aspects of Google," says Dr. Roni Zeiger, product manager for Google Health. Unlike Google's main search page or e-mail accounts, Google Health has no ads. Its business model is simple: the more people use Google Health, the more they're likely to punch in health-related queries, which routes them to a regular Google search-results page. That, in turn, drives revenue to the site...
...protest. The sentence was announced one day before the start of the Feast of Fire festival, public celebration of which has been banned since the 1979 revolution, when it was denounced as un-Islamic. The announcement's timing was thought to be a warning to the opposition not to use the occasion to stage additional demonstrations. Although droves of dissidents defied the ban by celebrating in the streets of Tehran, analysts predict that the death sentences may force opposition leaders to rethink their protest strategy...
...Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor - are designed to clear away LDL cholesterol, the waxy buildup that can clog arteries and trigger heart attacks and strokes. Doctors say the majority of current statin users are healthy people who don't have heart disease but who, like Segal, simply have high cholesterol. Use among this group, known as the primary prevention population, has made these drugs one of the world's best-selling classes.(See "The Year in Health 2009: From...