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Being a Woman In the Tech Industry

Whether Health Information Technology, or general Tech, woman often face different types of challenges than men in the same positions. Esther Dyson comments on TechCrunch senior editor Michael Arrington's recent article entitled, "Too Few Women [+]

Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Treatment?

Breast cancer effects millions of women.  New therapies could shorten treatments to a single visit.  These type of prevention and detection technologies are growing in use throughout the world. [+]

Hand-carried Ultrasound in a Difficult Medical Environment

In this video, Dr. Randy Baggesen discusses how point-of-care ultrasound technology can ease the difficulties associated with being a primary care physician. Dr. Baggessen points out that bedside medical ultrasound can improve [+]

Cleveland Clinic Doctor Finds Possible Breast Cancer Vaccine

Cleveland Clinic researcher, Dr. Vincent Tuohy, has tested a new breast cancer vaccine on lab animals with great success. Dr. Vincent Tuohy, who led the research at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said there [+]

Health Connections: Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases worldwide. On this episode of Health Connections we cover some of the basics of diabetes with two Mayo Clinic Diabetes Educators. Please join our [+]

HeartMath: A Value-Driven Approach to Some of Healthcare’s Toughest Challenges

HeartMath is a finalist for the 2009 ABBY award. The ABBY award is given each year by Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL). ABL members share with each other proven and innovative approaches for growing their businesses. [+]

Congressmand Tim Waltz discusses family planning in Health Choices Act

The following is a response from Congressman Tim Waltz: Thank you for contacting me regarding potential funding for family planning services in H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. I appreciate hearing from [+]

Very Controversial – Mammograms cause cancer?

This topic definately needs more research and some real studies behind it. However, if found to have merit, it wouldn't be the first time a "cure" was found to be worse than the disease. [+]

Painless Mammography via tomosynthesis

Tomosynthesis made a big splash in the media about two years ago and again about 8 months ago.  This new system is able to create an image of a breast without the painful interaction of [+]

Women in Technology Abu Dhabi Health and Fitness Club

Panel discussion focused on Women in Technology (WIT) program and how its innovative partnership approach, focused on Information Technology and business planning, has created one of the most succ... [+]

EKG specifically for women

Men and Women's health practices are different.  Everyone understands that.  However we haven't necessarily undertood that the Information Technology advancements around medicine may need to be different by gender. In an attempt to battle heart disease [+]

Technology interferes with child birth?

We love to sing the praises of technology.  But what happens when technology gets in the way of eons of evolution?  This topic from the University of California TV discusses the problems with Technology in [+]

Quick Update to Breast MRI information on Women’s Health

Quick and short update to the Women's Health section here:  http://healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/womens-health/ [+]