The latest scientific estimates on the strain that diabetes, as a disease, will place on the US healthcare system over the medium-term have revealed that costs will more than triple within 25 years, while the number of patients will reach double its current value, Reuters reports. The viability of Medicare, as well a... |
27 November 2009
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In his work “The Art,” the ancient Greek Hippocrates wrote, more than 2,500 years before the modern era, that medial practitioners were not scientists, but artists, and that their art was using their knowledge to do good. Healthcare providers were also described as people who knew when to use their medica... |
21 October 2009
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Ever since the Computer Age made its way into medicine, experts have dreamed of devising a way of letting medical equipments communicate among themselves, in a manner that would ensure a better healthcare quality for patients. Now, devices ranging from blood-pressure cuffs to heart-lung machines could easily be made ... |
18 September 2009
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In a new scientific study conducted on 250 Philadelphia homeowners currently undergoing foreclosure procedures, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that this situation is directly tied to a very high risk of these individuals developing major mental depression. The study... |
19 August 2009
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A new investigation has revealed that health care providers, doctors and nurses have not yet completely let go of pen and paper while they are on duty. In addition to the electronic medical records they keep, which show the full data about any patient, they still resort to notes, index cards, post-its on computer scr... |
21 July 2009
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Leading a healthy lifestyle should not be considered by most people to be a burden, or to be a sacrifice that they have to make by refusing to eat junk food and drink all types of soda. A healthy lifestyle is the way to go, and people gorging themselves in fast food restaurant all day long should not be considered th... |
28 May 2009
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As further evidence of the fact that the US healthcare system needs a thorough reform, a new study recently published in the journal Medical Care shows that nearly one million Californian residents sought professional medical healthcare in Mexico in 2001, preferring the so-called “lower standards” to thei... |
27 May 2009
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Economists in the United States are currently trying to get people's and authorities' attention on one of the most crippling phenomena in the country, namely what they've termed “job lock.” The concept refers to employees who remain trapped in their jobs, most of which are unsatisfactory, s... |
26 May 2009
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Surface computing can help members of the healthcare industry stand out from the crowd, Microsoft has revealed at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2009 conference in Chicago. The Redmond company is literally putting a digital touch on healthcare, by demoing application prototypes desi... |
7 April 2009
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Microsoft's vision of the future of healthcare involves a radical transformation of not only the way in which physicians operate, but also when it comes down to how patients deal with their health information. Through the voice of Peter Neupert, corporate vice president, Microsoft Corporation’s Health Solu... |
21 January 2009
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Ericsson has just announced that it will soon provide mobile health services across India, as a result of the collaboration with ATNF (the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation), which is a member of Apollo Hospitals Group. Grouped under the term of telemedicine, the future mobile health services will allow mi... |
5 June 2008
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Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a device that will help pregnant women worry less about their unborn child's health. Monica Healthcare's AN 24 electrophysiological monitor allows pregnant women and their doctors to check on an unborn baby's health. It's actually the firs... |
30 April 2007
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