The system can alert doctors when patients are due for preventive care and then the doctor can advise the patient.

The officials said they were alerting doctors about the recommendation.

The findings were reported to alert doctors to the unusual new face of a rare disease.

"We need to alert all the local hospitals and doctors that the killer may have been shot."

Thus in known affected areas, health officials are alerting doctors and laboratories to look for cyclospora.

A simple cervical test between the 24th and 34th weeks of pregnancy would alert doctors, who could act to delay the birth.

A more effective warning system is needed to alert doctors to drug side effects and problems, many in the medical profession say.

The blood test was used to alert doctors to women who should have amniocentesis.

Such announcements are used to alert doctors to important advances in treatment.

It will alert doctors to conditions after simple inexpensive screening tests and before the decision to do more expensive testing.