Yearly Archives: 2008
Techno Trends
Secure text messaging for health data
Wireless location-based services (LBS) provider SquareLoop has introduced a text messaging system to enable secure transmission of health data over public wireless...
Techno Trends
Life-saving data sent via Bluetooth
Mobile Gateway is now Bluetooth compatible with the Philips HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillator, allowing paramedics in the field to wirelessly send patient data to hospitals...
Research Insight
Postoperative Chemotherapy Does Not Improve Survival In Gastric Cancer Patients, Study Suggests
The use of combination chemotherapy following surgery did not improve survival in patients with gastric cancer, according to a randomized clinical trial. The...
Research Insight
Gene Silencing Therapies Could Have Harmful Side Effects, Research Suggests
Ambati, professor and vice chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and his colleagues have made a...
Techno Trends
Europeans can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests
In a major advance patients and their families across Europe can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests. Over the...
Techno Trends
Siemens come up with Chip Advances Lift Ultrasound Market, Help Save Lives
Siemens AG dubbed the P10, a quick portable ultrasound machine, the smallest currently on the market. Eyal Herzog, director of the cardiac-care unit at...
Research Insight
Taking Your Medications As Doctor Ordered – Help From The Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality
Free, online instructions for creating a pill card -- an illustrated medication schedule -- using only a personal or lap top computer and printer...
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