Patients at Como Avenue clinic St. Paul, MN will be able to communicate with their doctors and access their medical records and test results online in May.

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Medical schools are encouraging PDA usage amongst students for medical purposes.

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Prescription assistance program will give patients online access to more than 275 patient assistance programs, including more than 150 from pharma companies.

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A new website created by a San Francisco based sexual health organization allows users to order and receive STD tests results online. The site offers its users convenience, ease, and anonymity not available in clinics.

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For patients, email is a great way to avoid the telephone, but for physicians without major resources it may be a little too time consuming.

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For patients, email is a great way to avoid the telephone, but for physicians without major resources it may be a little too time consuming.

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comScore reports that sales of prescription drugs online have grown 15% over 2004. "Non-traditional" pharmacy sites account for most visits to online drugstores, driven by price-conscious consumers who have not been dissuaded by safety concerns.

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A recent Manhattan Research report encourages pharmaceutical advertisers to allocate more of their budgets to online spending.

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Pfizer will be among the first clients to test out Carat Interactive's new blog marketing service. It will be interesting to see if this takes hold, given the general blog environment of uncontrolled content and aversion to blatant product marketing.

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US physicians who use PDAs in clinical settings tend to use them for administrative tasks such as address books and appointment reminders. For physicians that use them for patient care, the most common uses include checking medication data and accessing medical databases.

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