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Yearly Archives: 2008

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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