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Technology Predicts Outcome of Child Heart Surgery

...eart’s performance with a sophisticated blood flow computer simulation. The work was presented this month at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions meeting in Chicago and has been published in Circulation and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. “We use the MRI images and time data to create mo...

A Boon to Neonates-“National Cot Locator” Developed by UK Hospitas

...ocess. But with the help of this government funded computer based program developed by clinical and professional experts, information of availability of cots in around 40 intensive care neonatal units across England is just a click away. Ivan Lewis, the health minister says,” On the occasions when a suitab...

Tune Your Brain To Fight Disorders

.... and other countries. When patients wired to a computer become nervous, noisy sounds are produced and when they get relaxed, nature's sounds are produced which encourage patients to listen to nature's sounds and become focused on stabilizing themselves and producing alpha and theta waves in their brain. T...

Healthcare system in Canada needs revamp

... records. Further, Canada was way behind in having computer systems that could notify patients about follow ups and prevention measures, which are important aspects in healthcare. Apart from that, the survey also found that only 55% of the Doctors were confident of handling patients with chronic problems. O...

Genetic Variation: We're More Different than We Thought

... and how much variation exists, Scherer said. "Our computer algorithms are smart, but it is hard to find something if it is not there in the reference you are comparing against." In fact, Scherer's group found some 30 million nucleotides that are seemingly not yet represented at all, or in different copy nu...

A Computer Network Contract For NHS Approved In Scotland

...and,the health minister, Andy Kerr,has announced a computer network for the NHS, that would cost ￡300 million....ell & Budge, andwill provide the NHS with national computer services for 11 years. The services include maintenance of patient records, health service payroll...

Novel Plans Of FDA To Monitor Safety Of Medical Devices

... be caused by the device. They also plan to revamp computer databases where complaints and problems faced by clients are registered and submission of complaints of defects on paper will be completely reverted to digital processing and expand present real time based data base which collects information from s...

Pain Tracked By 3D Computer Map

A 3-D computer map has been developed by a team at Brunel Univers...nge all that. It requires only a standard portable computer that can be uploaded by doctors at any point. This would enable doctors to build up information on...

Charity swindler jailed over cash fraud

...s company staff that he needed ￡450,000 to pay for computer software, after the Charities Commission and Scotland police started an investigation into the financial dealings of the company. This probe was launched in the middle of accusations that the company had swindled millions from Breast Cancer Relief's ...

New Device To Monitor Diabetics' Blood Sugar

...oped by scientists at Cambridge University, uses a computer to monitor the patient's blood sugar levels and ad...igh, according to a media report. The key is the computer programme that works out the precise dose of insulin needed. By delivering the correct amount of ins...

Lives of Diabetics Transformed

...t insulin accordingly. The latest device uses a computer to monitor the patient’s blood sugar levels and ad...e. These in turn will be connected wirelessly to a computer that controls an insulin pump worn on the patient’s belt. The key is the computer program, which wor...

Now A Computer Game To Battle AIDS

...dren's Fund (Unicef) has announced the launch of a computer game targeted at young people aimed at helping them make better choices to combat diseases like AIDS.// Announced this week, the game is currently available in English and Swahili versions at unicef.org/voy/explore /aids/explore_1360.html Unicef c...

New Flat Keyboard To Tackle Hospital Super Bug

A hospital in London has developed a flat computer keyboard that it claims could help reduce incidenc...ns. Research shows that as many as 25 percent of computer keyboards used in hospitals carry the MRSA super bug. Plastic keyboard covers are often used but the...

Artificial Liver from Cord Blood Stem cells

...od, all you would have to do is dial it up on your computer and fly it from Bristol to Newcastle or even Newcastle to Mumbai.” Source-Medidia GYT...

Salmonella Outbreak under Investigation

...reak was detected two weeks ago through a national computer lab system which looks for patterns and matches in reports of food-borne illness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also joined the CDC’s investigation and will try to help trace the outbreak to its origin. According to Dr. Chris Braden, a ...

Remote Control MRI Scans

...re skilled technologist can log on from a personal computer and perform the exam via remote control." Finn performed scan of 30 adults and children at the UCLA Medical Center from his office that is situated around half a mile away, in a demonstration. GYT...

Obesity Raises Gasoline Consumption

...son, one of the study's authors and a professor of computer science at U of I. said, "We basically looked at the average weights of people for different time periods, and then we took those people and we put them in today's cars with today's driving habits." Jacobson and Virginia Commonwealth professor Laur...

Gene Tests to Identify Ovarian Cancer Have Little Clinical Value

...nt that can result from a false-negative test. A computer simulation model developed by the research team suggests that screening, even with the highly accurate tests, will not result in large reductions in deaths from ovarian cancer unless testing is very frequent (less than 1 year between tests). However,...

HIV Takes Advantage of Rivalry among T cells

...dvanced stages of AIDS. // The study, which uses a computer model of simultaneous virus and immune system evol...g and professor of physics and astronomy. The new computer model, created by Deem and Guanyu Wang, now an assistant professor of physics at George Washington U...

Do Computer Factories Enhance Cancer Risk?

...o analysis of an exhaustive database on mortality, computer factories may be called a hotbed for different types of cancers//. By means of a study Richard W. Clapp, M.P.H., D.Sc. of Boston University has explained that cancers of the brain, kidney and breast were the main reasons for mortality amongst IBM e...

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