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FDA approves blood test for newborns
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iPAD frog dissection app is a leap forward for students
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Nose controlled wheelchair helps severely paralysed patients get mobile
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30 Jul 2010 8:51 AM
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Researchers from the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology department have created a device that could let severely disabled patients control wheelchairs or communicate by inhaling and exhaling through the nose. The new system detects changes in air...
FDA approves blood test for newborns
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30 Jul 2010 8:46 AM
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The first few days of a baby’s life are crucial for its development. They are also dangerous. As foetal red blood cells are broken down, infants produce increased amounts of the toxin bilirubin. In many cases, more of this toxin is created than...
Google Wave Makes Pitch for Health Records
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29 Jul 2010 11:18 AM
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It was only a matter of time before Google positioned Wave for electronic healthcare record management, and now two of its engineers, Shirley Gaw and Umesh Shankar, have done just that. In a recent paper , to be presented at USENIX HealthSec '10 ...
iPAD frog dissection app is a leap forward for students
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29 Jul 2010 10:01 AM
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Here's a neat and simple way to introduce children or younger students to medicine. Frog Dissection for iPAD introduces the basics of medical dissection taking full advantage of the iPAD's large colour screen and touchpad. Using the app, which...
Samsung and Verizon launch mobile phone for seniors
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27 Jul 2010 5:19 PM
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In 1902, a farmer in Murray, Kentucky patented a design for a wireless telephone. Nathan Stubblefield’s device was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile, but it was nevertheless the first of a kind. Faster, smaller and multi...
Vertigo sufferers tip their hats to new treatment
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27 Jul 2010 3:27 PM
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A new treatment is now available for sufferers of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), also known as spinning dizziness. DizzyFIX from Clearwater Clinical enables people to treat BPPV - the most common cause of vertigo - at home. BPPV develops...
Internet can help you lose weight says study
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27 Jul 2010 2:21 PM
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A new study has shown that the internet can be a valuable slimming aid. The findings, which stem from one of the longest weight loss trials in U.S history, showed that people who used a weight management website achieved the most success in keeping off...
Video game graphics processors cut X-ray radiation
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26 Jul 2010 7:05 PM
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Video games are pretty these days. Dedicated graphics processors generate richly detailed, high resolution environments. But now scientists are using these high-power video processors for more than merely blasting foes on Modern Warfare 2 . A team of...
Championship software could signal the end of antibiotic resistant bacterium
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26 Jul 2010 5:54 PM
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Scientists at North Carolina’s Duke University have developed predictive software with the aim of beating antibiotic-resistant mutations. The software works much the same way as a champion chess player does when analyzing their opponent’s...
Cancer study finds telecare reduces pain and depression
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23 Jul 2010 5:21 PM
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Cancer patients experience many symptoms, but pain and depression are two of the most prevalent. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for them to go unrecognised and untreated, especially if the patients are in rural or hard to reach locations . But...
Blood test could identify depression
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23 Jul 2010 2:22 PM
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Although blood tests are a tried and trusted way for doctors to diagnose patients’ physical ailments, they’re not much use when identifying mental disorders such as depression. But an article published in Biological Psychiatry (Volume 68,...
Will thought-controlled prosthetic arm get thumbs up?
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23 Jul 2010 11:23 AM
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Scientists in America are getting ready to test a new type of artificial arm – one that is controlled by a patient’s mind. The scientists hope that the handy prosthetic will give patients greater control over their arm movements, and make...
3D heart scans could help heart patients avoid surgery
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22 Jul 2010 10:48 AM
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People with heart problems could avoid surgery in the future thanks to a new technique for creating 3D images of the organ. Using the technology, which has been developed at Southampton General Hospital in the UK, doctors get a 3D image of an echocardiography...
Look, but don’t touch says maker of new non-contact thermometer
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21 Jul 2010 8:21 PM
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Traditionally, the only way to take a patient's temperature is to insert the thermometer into the body. But medical device manufacturer Sanomedics has a less invasive way to get the information: non-contact thermometers. The Florida-based company...
New tissue scaffolds support off-the-shelf transplants
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21 Jul 2010 6:14 PM
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A technique for creating biological scaffolds should make it quicker and easier to perform transplants. Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK, have found a way to build the scaffolds from human or animal tissue, and then use them for repairing...
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