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Using updated PubMed: new features and functions to enhance literature searches
26 July 2021 - In the past 2 years, PubMed has been updated to improve functionality and add important new features, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2020
The NICE MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid) health apps search filters: development of validated filters to retrieve evidence about health apps
27 October 2020 - Health apps are software programs that are designed to prevent, diagnose, monitor, or manage conditions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2020
Is your health data safe as My Health Record hacking revealed
20 May 2020 - The government's My Health Record platform was the target of an attempted hack last year, Australia's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jan 2020
FDA launches mobile-friendly database with information on life-saving HIV drugs as part of ongoing mission to empower the public through increased access to information and data
29 January 2020 - Interactive tool offers information on ARVs eligible for purchase under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2019
10 year update on study results submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov
14 November 2019 - A decade after ClinicalTrials.gov launched a database for reporting results of clinical trials, the database includes results ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2019
DNA data shared in ways patients may find surprising
12 August 2019 - Hospitals engaged in private deals with drugmakers don’t always disclose the ways the data will be used. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2019
FDA takes new steps to improve drug supply chain integrity and patient safety by announcing its intention to begin deactivating outdated drug listing records in its database
13 August 2019 - Today, the U.S. FDA announced that it will inactivate listing records in its database that have not ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2019
Doctors slow to adopt tech tools that might save patients money on drugs
5 July 2019 - When Mary Kay Gilbert saw her doctor in May for a skin infection on her leg, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jul 2019
Call for all sponsors to publish clinical trial results in EU database
3 July 2019 - The European Commission, the European Medicines Agency and the Heads of Medicines Agencies have co-signed a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Feb 2019
My Health Record opt-out doubles to 2.5 million people
20 February 2019 - The number of Australians who opted out of the My Health Record system doubled after the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2019
The future of FDA's electronic safety surveillance
9 January 2019 - The U.S. FDA is an information-driven agency that requires robust data to make regulatory decisions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2018
Amazon muscles into health care with patient record software
28 November 2018 - Amazon.com is starting to sell software that mines patient medical records for information doctors and hospitals ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Nov 2018
Database tracks faulty medical devices across the globe
26 November 2018 - Patients across the world now have access to facts about faulty or dangerous medical devices — ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Nov 2018
Which databases should be used to identify studies for systematic reviews of economic evaluations?
16 November 2018 - This study investigated which databases and which combinations of databases should be used to identify economic evaluations ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2018
Health Minister Greg Hunt to announce My Health Record changes
6 November 2018 - Health Minister Greg Hunt is poised to announce long-awaited changes to the government's My Health Record ...